These are future missions that plan to send additional organisms to the Moon.
They would be the first human landing on the Moon in more than 50 years, since the 1972 Apollo 17 mission.
[12] In January 2024, NASA officially delayed the Artemis 3 mission to no earlier than September 2026.
[13] After the failed landing of Beresheet in 2019, which resulted in a crash, spilling thousands of tardigades onto the Moon, Lunaria One, an Australian organization, plans to send plants such as resurrection grass with the Israeli spacecraft Beresheet 2 to the Moon in 2025.
[14][15] Humans and other animals have orbited or circled the Moon without landing.