This isn’t just how they will live, how long they will stay, or what they will do; no, this is far more interesting: this was how humans will travel from lunar orbit from the surface of the moon.

In the meantime, Nasa plans to use a different orbit, known as the near-rectilinear halo orbit or NRHO, to build its lunar Gateway station and support missions to the moon's surface, Mars and beyond.

NASA's Artemis campaign is rapidly advancing the development of Gateway, a space station that will orbit the Moon and serve ...