NASA includes a woman and an African American for the return to the Moon

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NASA has introduced the first four astronauts, including a woman and an African Americanwhich will crew Artemis missions, with which the agency projects return to the moon50 years after the Apollo missions.

The launch of the Artemis II mission is planned for 2024as confirmed by the administrator of NASA, Bill Nelson, in an act at the Johnson Center of the space agency in Houston.

It’s about the Americans Gregory R. Wisemanas commander, the African American Victor J Glover as a pilot, and mission specialists christina kochalso from NASA, and Jeremy Hansonthe latter astronaut of the CSA (Canadian Space Agency).

Meet the first member of our #Artemis II Moon crew: mission specialist @Astro_Christina!

Christina Koch visited the @Space_Station in 2019, where she took part in the first all-woman spacewalk. She began her career as an electrical engineer at @NASAGoddard. pic.twitter.com/mi82SayXUm

—NASA (@NASA) April 3, 2023

Our #Artemis II pilot is @AstroVicGlover!

Victor Glover is part of our 2013 class of @NASA_Astronauts and was the pilot for NASA’s @SpaceX Crew-1 mission. He’s logged 3,000 flight hours in more than 40 different aircraft, and will pilot @NASA_Orion around the Moon. pic.twitter.com/P0zJ8pwaeL

—NASA (@NASA) April 3, 2023

The mission, of about 10 days longwill test the life support systems of the Orion spacecraft, attached to ESA’s service module, to demonstrate the capabilities and techniques necessary to live and work in deep space in a way that humans can, reports NASA .

Artemis II builds on the successful flight test Artemis Iwhich launched an uncrewed Orion spacecraft, mounted on the SLS rocket, on a journey of about 2.25 million kilometers beyond the Moon to test the systems before astronauts fly aboard the systems on a mission to the surface of the Moon.