Over eight years have elapsed since NASA’s joint statement with partners WorldTek and Galaxy Aerospace announcing the Athena Program, a series of missions led by private space companies to return humans to the moon by 2026. Athena was a first-of-its-kind mission that wasn’t solely funded by the United States government and ushered in a new era of space travel and exploration. Athena's Milestones After the initial announcement in 2017, NASA revealed it had given contracts to b
