Reuters | , Posted by way of Singh Rahul Sunilkumar
NASA on Monday named the primary girl and the primary African American ever assigned as astronauts to a lunar project, introducing them as a part of the four-member group selected to fly as early as subsequent yr on what will be the first crewed voyage across the moon in additional than 50 years.
Christina Koch, an engineer who already holds the file for the longest steady spaceflight by way of a girl, was once named as a project specialist, at the side of Victor Glover, a US Navy aviator, who was once decided on because the Artemis II pilot. (ALSO READ: What is NASA’s Artemis 1 project?)
Glover, who was once a part of the second one crewed flight of a SpaceX Crew Dragon pill, would change into the primary astronaut of colour ever to be despatched on a lunar project.
Rounding out the four-member team are Jeremy Hansen, the primary Canadian ever selected for a flight to the moon, as a project specialist, and Reid Wiseman, an International Space Station veteran, named as Artemis II project commander.
The Artemis II quartet had been presented at a televised information convention in Houston on the Johnson Space Center, NASA’s project regulate base.
Artemis II will mark the debut crewed flight – however no longer the primary lunar touchdown – of an Apollo successor program geared toward returning astronauts to the moon’s floor later this decade and in the long run organising a sustainable outpost there, making a stepping stone to long term human exploration of Mars .