Nasa names astronauts for Artemis Moon mission
: 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.
Wiseman will be the commander; Glover will be his pilot; Koch and Hansen will act as the supporting "mission specialists". The major difference this time will be the use of the 21st Century technology that Nasa has developed under its Artemis programme. In Greek mythology, Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo., called the Space Launch System, and its associated crew capsule, known as Orion.
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