'It has the landscape; it looks like the Moon. And it has the scale of features astronauts will both be observing and exploring,' NASA's Cindy Evans said.
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astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, alongside Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, as well as backup crew members 's Johnson Space Center in Houston, said in a Johnson, said in the statement. 'Traditionally, a geologist goes out with just standard tool sets of things like rock hammers and scoops or shovels to sample the world around them, both on the surface and subsurface.'Sadly, the crew of Artemis II will not land on the moon. Following the unmanned Artemis I mission, which successfully launched the Space Launch System and the Orion spacecraft on a trip around the moon and back to Earth.
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