Get ready to blast off, because NASA is gearing up for an out-of-this-world adventure! After a long hiatus from the moon, the space agency has chosen four lucky astronauts to take on the Artemis II mission and relive one of humanity's greatest feats.
Meet the space-savvy squad: Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Jeremy Hanson, and Christina Koch. These cosmic trailblazers will soon be orbiting the moon and making history once again. Let's hope they remember to bring back some moon rocks for us earthlings to ogle over!
Here they are. @SenBillNelson announces the #Artemis II crew, the next astronauts to fly around the Moon:@Astro_Christina@Astro_Jeremy@AstroVicGlover@Astro_Reid
— NASA (@NASA) April 3, 2023
We go together. https://t.co/XdUizg2Wye pic.twitter.com/6Yo4I2lKeJ
A few words about the #Artemis2 mission in our words, as shared on the Today Show. Great conversation and chance to meet many from all over the country! https://t.co/tunpgxAGtC
— Christina H Koch (@Astro_Christina) April 17, 2023
What makes it more refreshing and historic is that among the four selected astronauts, Victor Glover is the first Black astronaut, and Christina Koch, meanwhile is the first-ever woman to have been assigned in the lunar mission! A well-represented leap-off right?
Christina Koch is a 44-year-old engineer, who was assigned as mission specialist. She was also part of NASA's first three all-female spacewalks, and holds the record of a woman with the “longest continuous spaceflight.”
Meet the first member of our #Artemis II Moon crew: mission specialist @Astro_Christina!
— NASA (@NASA) April 3, 2023
Christina Koch visited the @Space_Station in 2019, where she took part in the first all-woman spacewalk. She began her career as an electrical engineer at @NASAGoddard. pic.twitter.com/mi82SayXUm
Victor Glover, meanwhile, is a 46-year-old US Navy aviator and veteran of four spacewalks who NASA has assigned as the pilot of the voyage.
Our #Artemis II pilot is @AstroVicGlover!
— NASA (@NASA) April 3, 2023
Victor Glover is part of our 2013 class of @NASA_Astronauts and was the pilot for NASA’s @SpaceX Crew-1 mission. He’s logged 3,000 flight hours in more than 40 different aircraft, and will pilot @NASA_Orion around the Moon. pic.twitter.com/P0zJ8pwaeL
Added to the flyby was Jeremy Hansen, a Royal Canadian Air Force colonel and first Canadian ever chosen for a flight to the moon, who is assigned as a mission specialist. Finally, another former US Navy fighter pilot, Reid Wiseman is named as mission commander.
“The objective of the 10-day Artemis II journey around the moon and back, is to demonstrate that all of Orion’s life-support apparatus and other systems will operate as designed with astronauts aboard in deep space.
¡Aquà están! Presentamos a los astronautas de #Artemis II:
— NASA en español (@NASA_es) April 3, 2023
Reid Wiseman (@astro_reid)
Victor Glover (@AstroVicGlover)
Christina Koch (@Astro_Christina)
Jeremy Hanson (@Astro_Jeremy)
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Artemis II will venture some 6,400 miles (10,300 km) beyond the far side of the moon before returning, marking the closest pass humans have made to Earth’s natural satellite since Apollo 17, which carried Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt to the lunar surface in December 1972.” - written by Reuters in the article NASA names woman, Black astronauts to Artemis II crew in lunar first.
This is another soon to be materialized action, which will again serve as a proof of humanity's courage, and capability to transcend to another dimension. The Earth is our living place, but we are always fascinated with what is on the outside of us, just like our exploration on Mars, right? And also because probably, there are also other beings outside, just like us! As early as next year, expect another milestone that we are about to achieve, as soon as they take-off!
