Humans are set to travel around the moon for the first time in over 50 years, venturing further from Earth than ever before, as NASA’s historic moon mission gets ready to blast off as early as next month.

When four astronauts begin a historic trip around the moon as soon as February 6, they’ll climb aboard NASA’s 16.5-foot-wide (5-metre-wide) Orion spacecraft with the understanding that it has a known ...