Moon’s the Word - Is There Life Out There? The evening opened with a talk on the Moon from Manish Patel, returning to a theme he had also spoken on last year and giving it something of an annual-event feel. He looked at the success of Artemis II, launched on 1st April 2026, 54 years after humans had previously left Earth’s orbit. A flyby mission to the Moon, its objective was to help decide ‘which post codes to move into’. He revealed the European dimension of this first crew