NASA today unveiled a team of four selected to participate early next year in the first manned flight around the moon in more than 50 years. Among the four are the first woman and the first African American to participate in a NASA mission to the moon.
Christina Koch, an engineer who also holds the record for the longest consecutive space flight by a woman, was named mission specialist along with Victor Glover, the US Navy pilot selected to pilot the Artemis II mission.
Glover, who participated in the second manned flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, will be the first African-American astronaut in history to take part in a flight to the moon.
Rounding out the team are Jeremy Hanson, the first Canadian selected to fly to the Moon as a mission specialist, and International Space Station veteran Reed Weissman, who has been named the Artemis II mission commander.
The Artemis II mission quartet was unveiled at a televised press conference at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, NASA’s mission control center.
Source: APE-MPE, Reuters, AFP.
Source: Kathimerini
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