Nasa names the four individuals who will take humanity back to the Moon after a gap of 50 years.
: A US Navy pilot who served for a time as the head of Nasa's astronaut office. He's flown one previous space mission, to the International Space station in 2015.: A US Navy test pilot. He joined Nasa in 2013 and made his first spaceflight in 2020. He was the first African American to stay on the space station for an extended period of six months.: An electrical engineer. She holds the record for longest continuous time in space by a woman, of 328 days.
"Nasa astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Hammock Koch, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen, each has their own story, but, together, they represent our creed: E pluribus unum - out of many, one. Together, we are ushering in a new era of exploration for a new generation of star sailors and dreamers - the Artemis Generation."Wiseman will be the commander; Glover will be his pilot; Koch and Hansen will act as the supporting "mission specialists".
Its crew took the famous "Earthrise" picture that showed our home planet emerging from behind the lunar horizon. This Artemis-1 mission left Earth on a 25-day excursion around the Moon without anyone on board. This allowed engineers to assess the readiness of the hardware.Now, the newly named astronauts will climb into Orion for Artemis-2 and a journey to and from the Moon that's likely to take about 10 days.
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