NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, middle, stands with the crew of the Artemis II mission, from left: Jeremy Hansen, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Christina Koch.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Monday introduced the four astronauts who will fly on the company’s upcoming mission around the moon, at the moment scheduled for late 2024.
Known as the Artemis II mission, the spaceflight will carry three Americans and one Canadian: Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch from NASA, and Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency.
Wiseman is the mission’s commander and Glover is the pilot, whereas Hansen and Koch are mission specialists.
Artemis II follows the uncrewed Artemis I mission, which accomplished an almost month-long journey around the moon late final 12 months. The Artemis program represents a collection of missions with escalating objectives. The third – tentatively scheduled for 2025 – is anticipated to return astronauts to the lunar floor for the first time since the Apollo period.
The Artemis II mission will launch on NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, with the Orion capsule carrying the astronauts on a 10-day journey to the moon and again. While Artemis II will not land on the moon, it will make a close to cross above the floor and display the Orion spacecraft’s capacity to move folks safely.