NASA Introduces Four Astronauts in Artemis II Moon Mission
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VIVA – NASA introduced four Astronauts to fly around the moon, with three Americans and one Canadian who will be on the crew of the Artemis II mission, a 10-day mission occurring no earlier than the end of 2024, which will travel around the Moon before returning to Earth.
The crew will join the ranks of American astronauts who visited the Moon from 1968 to 1972 during the Apollo era.
As information, NASA announced that Artemis II will be commanded by Reid Wiseman, with Victor Glover as the pilot. Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen will be mission specialists.
Wiseman, a former chief astronaut, flew to the International Space Station for a 165-day mission in 2014. Glover flew on the Crew-1 commercial crew mission to the ISS in late 2020 for a six-month mission. Koch spent nearly a year in space on the ISS from March 2019 to February 2020. Hansen, one of four active Canadian astronauts, will be making his first flight.
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“The mission to the moon will launch four pioneers, but it will carry more than astronauts,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said at the event, just before introducing the crew.
“Artemis II will carry the hopes of millions of people around the world,” Nelson added.
If Artemis II is successful, it will set up the biggest event in human spaceflight since the 1970s: Artemis III, a mission that will send astronauts to the lunar surface.
Artemis II is currently scheduled to launch no earlier than November 2024 on the second flight of the Space Launch System. It will be the first time either the SLS or the Orion spacecraft have carried astronauts.
The SLS will place the Orion spacecraft into an elliptical Earth orbit, remaining there for about a day to allow astronauts to test the spacecraft and confirm its life support systems and other key subsystems are performing well. The spacecraft will also perform a proximity operation or “prox ops” demonstration by maneuvering in the vicinity of the SLS’s Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage.
