--- title: What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond», a lesson of the space course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: After fifty years away, people are heading back towards the Moon: it was reported that in April 2026 NASA's Artemis II carried fo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/) / What comes next: the Moon, Mars and be… # What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond Lesson 30 of the space course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/0/) — After fifty years away, people are heading back towards the Moon: it was reported that in April 2026 NASA's Artemis II carried four astronauts around the Moon and back. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/1/) — Much of what comes next is plans, not facts yet: space missions are hugely hard and costly, and their dates very often slip, like a building project that always finishes late. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/2/) — The next targets are the Moon's south pole, where dark craters hold water ice, and one day Mars, a trip of many months each way. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/3/) — Robots go first: spacecraft are on their way to Jupiter's icy moons, and a flying drone is planned for Saturn's moon Titan. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/4/) — Space near Earth is getting crowded with old satellites and rocket parts, so a tidy-up is part of the future too. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/5/) — NASA's Artemis programme aims to return people to the Moon. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/6/) — It was reported that in April 2026 Artemis II carried four astronauts, three American and one Canadian, around the Moon and back, without landing. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/7/) — The next crewed landing on the Moon is planned for the late 2020s, but dates for big space missions very often slip. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/8/) — Future missions aim for the Moon's south pole, where some craters are always in shadow and hold water ice, which crews could melt for drinking water and split into oxygen to breathe and rocket fuel. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/9/) — China's Chang'e 6 brought the first rock samples from the Moon's far side back to Earth in 2024, and China plans to land astronauts on the Moon before 2030. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/11/) — No humans have yet gone to Mars, and a crewed landing is unlikely before the 2030s, whatever some headlines say. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/12/) — Perseverance has sealed rock samples in tubes on Mars, but the plan to bring them back to Earth has been delayed and redesigned because of cost. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/13/) — NASA's Europa Clipper, launched in 2024, should reach Jupiter in 2030, and ESA's JUICE, launched in 2023, should arrive in 2031, to study moons with hidden oceans. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/14/) — NASA's Dragonfly, a drone-like rotorcraft due to launch around 2028, is planned to fly in the thick air of Saturn's moon Titan in the 2030s. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/15/) — The International Space Station is planned to be retired and guided down into a remote part of the Pacific around 2030, with new private stations meant to follow. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/16/) — Thousands of old satellites and pieces of rocket orbit Earth as space junk, and even a paint fleck at orbital speed can damage a spacecraft. - ← previous: [The history of space exploration](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/29-the-history-of-space-exploration/) - next →: [Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/) - ↑ back to [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/)