The crew – three Americans and one Canadian – were introduced during a ceremony Monday in Houston, home to the nation’s astronauts as well as Mission Control.
, who was born in Pomona and graduated from Ontario High School, served as pilot and second-in-command for the Resilience SpaceX Crew-1 Dragon before his return from the International Space Station in May, 2021.
“This is a big day. We have a lot to celebrate and it’s so much more than the four names that have been announced,” said Glover. During Apollo, NASA sent 24 astronauts to the moon from 1968 through 1972. Twelve of them landed. All were military-trained test pilots except for Apollo 17′s Harrison Schmitt, a geologist who closed out that moon landing era alongside the late Gene Cernan.
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