People could remain on the Moon for extensive periods during this long time, a Nasa official has told the BBC.
Howard Hu, who drives the Orion lunar rocket program for the office, said territories would be expected to help logical missions.
He told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that Wednesday's send off of the Artemis rocket, which conveys Orion, was a "noteworthy day for human space flight".
Orion is as of now around 134,000km (83,300 miles) from the Moon.
The 100m-tall Artemis rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center as a component of Nasa's central goal to return space explorers to Earth's satellite.
Sitting on the rocket is the Orion shuttle which, for this first mission, is uncrewed however is furnished with a 'puppet' which will enroll the effects of the trip on the human body.
Wednesday's flight followed two past send off endeavors in August and September that were cut short during the commencement due to specialized troubles.
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Howard Hu is responsible for the Orion rocket
Mr Hu let Laura Kuenssberg know that watching Artemis lift off was "a mind blowing feeling" and "a fantasy".
"It's the initial step we're taking to long haul profound space investigation, for the US as well as for the world," he said.
"Furthermore, I think this is a noteworthy day for Nasa, but on the other hand a memorable day for every one individuals love human space flight and profound space investigation.
"All in all, we are returning to the Moon, we're pursuing a practical program and this is the vehicle that will convey individuals that will land us back on the Moon in the future."
Mr Hu made sense of that on the off chance that the ongoing Artemis flight was effective, the following would be with a group, trailed by a third where space explorers would arrive on the Moon again interestingly since Apollo quite a while back in December 1972.
The ongoing mission was continuing great, he told the BBC, with all frameworks working and the mission group planning for the following terminating of Orion's motors (what is known as a consume) at noon on Monday to place the rocket into a far off circle of the Moon.
Mr Hu conceded that watching the mission from Earth was much the same as being a restless parent, but rather he said seeing the pictures and the recordings returning from Orion "truly gives that energy and sensation of, 'amazing, we are gone to the Moon'".
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One of the most basic periods of the Artemis I mission is getting the Orion module securely back to Earth. It will reappear the planet's environment at 38,000km/h (24,000mph), or multiple times the speed of sound and the safeguard on its underside will be exposed to temperatures drawing closer 3,000C.
When the security of Artemis' parts and frameworks has been verified, Mr Hu said the arrangement was to have people living on the Moon "in this long period".
An enormous piece of the justification for returning to the Moon is to find whether there is water at the satellite's south pole, he added, in light of the fact that that could be switched over completely to give a fuel to make going further into space - to Mars, for instance.
"We will send individuals down to the surface and they will be living on that surface and doing science," Mr Hu said.
"It's truly going to be vital as far as we're concerned to gain proficiency with a tad past our World's circle and afterward do a major step when we go to Mars.
"Furthermore, the Artemis missions empower us to have a manageable stage and transportation framework that permits us to figure out how to work in that profound space climate."
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