The NASA has announced the four crew members of the Artemis II mission what in 2024 will carry out a space mission 10 days around Luna. Among them is a woman and an African-American.
The chief of astronauts, Joe Acaba, has announced to the chosen ones that they will venture to the surroundings of the Moon in the Artemis II mission at the Johnson Center of the space agency in houston. The launch of the mission is scheduled for 2024.
The four crew members are the Americans Gregory Reid Wiseman, as commander, the African-American Victor J. Glover as pilot, and the mission specialists Christina Koch, also from NASA, and Jeremy Hansen, astronaut from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency).
the four crew
Gregory Reid Wiseman he worked aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer in 2014 and was also on hand for NEEMO21 underwater research as NASA’s Chief Astronaut.
Victor Glover He was a Crew 1 mission pilot contracted to Space X to fly to the International Space Station. He will be the first pilot of an Orion, in this case flying around the Moon.
the canadian Jeremy Hansen he was a fighter pilot before joining the CSA and currently works with NASA in astronaut training and mission operations. It will be his first mission in space.
Christina Koch visited the Space Station in 2019, where she participated in the first all-female spacewalk. She began her career as an electrical engineer.
The entire team will travel aboard the NASA Orion spacecraft in the first crewed flight test of the Artemis Program. The mission will last about 10 days and will test the life support systems of the Orion spacecraft, attached to the ESA service module.
Artemis II is based on the successful test of artemis I flight, who threw a uncrewed Orion ship on a journey of about 2.25 million kilometers to test the systems before astronauts fly aboard.