As NASA organizes a push to return a human presence to the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, the agency has made critical changes to the plan that would enable a crewed lunar landing to occur no later than 2024.
One of these modifications involved the Lunar Gateway, a modular space station that will be deployed in a seven-day near-rectilinear and elliptical orbit to function as a staging point for both robotic and crewed missions to the surface under the Artemis Moon program.