This mixture of pictures exhibits, from left, astronauts Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch, and Reid Wiseman. On Monday, April 3, 2023, NASA introduced the three Americans and one Canadian because the crew who would be the first to fly the Orion capsule, launching atop a Space Launch System rocket from Kennedy Space Center no sooner than late 2024.
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NASA on April 3 named the first girl and the first African-American ever assigned as astronauts to a lunar mission, introducing them as a part of the four-member group chosen to fly as early as subsequent 12 months on what can be the first crewed voyage across the moon in additional than 50 years.
Christina Koch, an engineer who already holds the file for the longest steady spaceflight by a lady, was named as a mission specialist, together with Victor Glover, a U.S. Navy aviator, who was chosen because the Artemis II pilot.
Mr. Glover, who was a part of the second crewed flight of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, would develop into the first astronaut of shade ever to be despatched on a lunar mission.
Rounding out the four-member crew are Jeremy Hanson, the first Canadian ever chosen for a flight to the moon, as a mission specialist, and Reid Wiseman, an International Space Station veteran, named as Artemis II mission commander.
The Artemis II quartet have been launched at a televised information convention in Houston on the Johnson Space Center, NASA’s mission management base.
Artemis II will mark the debut crewed flight — however not the first lunar touchdown — of an Apollo successor program aimed toward returning astronauts to the moon’s floor later this decade and finally establishing a sustainable outpost there, making a stepping stone to future human exploration of Mars.
