If all goes as planned, Australia will send a rover to the moon for the first time in a few years. According to the Australian Space Agency, the country will send a robotic rover to one of NASA’s missions to the moon Artemis, which will launch in 2026.

“Based on Australia’s world-leading expertise in remote operations, the rover will collect lunar soil known as a regolith,” the agency said in a statement on Tuesday (September 5th). “NASA will try to extract oxygen from the sample. This is an important step towards a permanent human presence on the Moon.”

The rover doesn’t have a name yet, but the Australian Space Agency is working on it. The agency recently launched a competition to name the lead robot, and you can enter if you live in Australia.

You have until October 20 to apply. The Australian Space Agency will select its four favorites from public submissions and then put the shortlist to a public vote. The winner will be announced in early December.

NASA is working to establish a permanent human presence on and around the Moon by the end of the 2020s through the Artemis program. NASA officials say that the knowledge and skills gained along the way will enable humanity to take the next giant step, a crewed mission to Mars.

To date, NASA has launched an Artemis mission called Artemis 1, which sent the uncrewed Orion spacecraft into lunar orbit and returned late last year. The agency is preparing to send four astronauts around the moon with the Artemis 2 spacecraft, which is scheduled to launch at the end of 2024.

The next mission, Artemis 3, will launch near the moon’s south pole in late 2025 or 2026 if all goes as planned. NASA is leveraging a variety of commercial and international partnerships to achieve Artemis’ ambitious goals, as evidenced by the inclusion of an Australian rover on the upcoming mission. Also, the European Space Agency is providing the Orion Service Module, and SpaceX’s next-generation Starship will be the first manned vehicle to land on the Moon.