This year, there are no fewer than 5 separate planned missions to the moon by various space agencies and companies. This number is expected to increase each year, and it seems that they are all based on a single goal: to establish infrastructure on the moon. Artemis II, the NASA mission completed earlier this April, is merely part two of a six-part mission which aims to start bringing the modules for a semi-permanent moon base by 2028. China's Chang-e mission seems to be similar, with Chang-e 7 launching in August with equipment to do spectrography of lunar ice, and Chang-e 8 planned for 2028 to see if bricks can be constructed out of moon regolith. India has their Chandrayaan-4 mission set for October 2027 to 2028, meant to collect samples from the Lunar South Pole. Europe's Starlight program to bring communications satellites into Lunar orbit are set to start later this year, as well, with the goal to be to set up full communications and navigation satellites by 2028.
We made it, folks.
