NASA Has Named Astronauts Who Will Fly Around The Moon In 2024 As Part of The Artemis II Mission
The American space agency NASA has named four astronauts who will fly around the moon as part of the Artemis II mission in 2014. This time, for the first time, the crew will include a woman and a black man.
The team reportedly includes American astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman, as well as Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen.
NASA has repeatedly stated that it will take women and black people on its Artemis missions. In Artemis II it will be Viktor Glover and Christina Koch.
In 2024, they will fly around the moon and become the first people to see it up close in the last 50 years.
They will also be the first to fly on the new Orion spacecraft, which completed an unmanned unmanned mission last year.
The four soon-to-be-announced astronauts won’t touch the moon rocks or come down here, at least not this time, but they are instrumental in testing systems for the next step.
Which will come already in 2025, when as part of the Artemis III mission, astronauts will land on the South Pole of the Moon, in the area that NASA has chosen as the best place to establish a permanent lunar base.
