NASA will attempt a moon launch in November. So will someone else.
If there were any skepticism on whether the world has entered a new space race, dueling lunar-bound liftoffs coming next month could be the smoking gun. NASA will try again to send up its first Artemis mission on Nov. 14 and Japanese commercial company ispace will shoot for a launch between Nov. 9 and 15 at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.