Four astronauts will be tapped by NASA to complete a generation-defining mission to the moon’s orbit
Four astronauts — including three Americans and one Canadian — will be tapped by
officials and astronauts to pull back the curtain on the secretive selection process. The names with buzz Reid Wiseman, a 47-year-old decorated naval aviator and test pilot who was first selected to be a had initially deemed 18 astronauts to be the “Artemis Team” and eligible to fly on moon missions, Wiseman expanded the group of candidates to all 41 active
has also previously committed to selecting a crew with racial, gender and professional diversity. Those criteria have not historically been the case for high-profile missions. Going back to the Gemini era, astronauts selected for inaugural crewed missions have been only White and male, and typically come from a background as a military test pilot — a profile notably characterized in the 1979 book “The Right Stuff” by Tom Wolfe.
’s Orion capsule on a 1.4 million-mile voyage to lap the moon that concluded in December. The space agency deemed that mission a success and is still working to review all the data collected. If all goes to plan, Artemis II will take off around November 2024. The crew members, strapped inside the Orion spacecraft, will launch atop a
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