Mankind will return to the moon after 50 years, NASA reveals the names of the 4 astronauts of the "Artemis" mission

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Mankind will return to the moon after 50 years, NASA reveals the names of the 4
Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen will fly around the lunar body late next year or early 2025

The American space agency NASA has named the four astronauts who will return humanity to the moon, after a gap of 50 years with the "Artemis" mission. Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen will fly around the lunar body late next year or early 2025.

According to the BBC, the astronauts will not land on the moon, but their mission will pave the way for a subsequent crewed landing. The three American citizens and one Canadian were presented to the public at a ceremony in Houston, Texas.

They will now begin an intensive training period to prepare. In selecting a woman and a person of color, NASA is keeping its promise to bring greater diversity to its exploration efforts. All previous crewed missions to the Moon were carried out by white men.

Reid Wiseman – 47 years old. US Navy pilot who served for a time as head of NASA's astronaut office. He has flown one previous space mission, to the International Space Station in 2015.

Victor Glover – 46 years old . US Navy Test Pilot. He joined NASA in 2013 and made his first space flight in 2020. He was the first African-American to stay on the space station for an extended period of six months.

Christina Koch – 44 years old . An electrical engineer. She holds the record for the longest continuous time in space by a woman, at 328 days. With NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, she participated in the first all-female spacewalk in October 2019.

Jeremy Hanson-47 years old. Before joining the Canadian Space Agency, he was a fighter pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He has never flown in space.

Wiseman will be the commander, Glover will be his pilot; Koch and Hansen will act as "mission support specialists".

The quartet is essentially repeating the 1968 mission performed by Apollo 8, which was the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon.


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