NASA has announced the identities of a total of four astronauts, three men and a woman, selected for Artemis 2, the first manned Moon mission in more than 50 years. As expected, the crew will also include a Canadian astronaut as the first person outside the United States.
NASA announced the astronauts who will travel to the Moon with the Artemis mission!
NASA has revealed the identities of the four-man crew for the Artemis 2 mission. The astronaut crew was announced at a live event held at Ellington Field of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
These are respectively; NASA astronaut Victor Glover, mission specialists Christina Koch and Reid Wiseman, who will serve as the pilot of Artemis 2, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen as the mission commander were determined. These four astronauts will travel aboard the Orion capsule for a planned trip to the Moon in 2024.
Vanessa Wyche, director of NASA Johnson Space Center, said during the event:
“We’ve taken many giant strides in 60 years, fulfilled Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the Moon (assassinated former US President), and today we stand on the shoulders of giants as we move forward to the Moon and Mars again.”
As part of NASA’s Moon program, the Orion capsule was launched in November 2022 for a 25-day trip to the Moon. But there was no one inside. Because Artemis 2, set to take place in 2024, is the first mission to carry a crew to the Moon since the days of Apollo, although it is the second mission. However, the Artemis 2 crew will not land on the Moon either. Instead, it will make a 10-day trip to the far untraveled side of the Moon, about 230,000 miles from Earth.
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