NASA Announced Four Astronauts Set To Complete Artemis II Mission

The astronauts are expected to be NASA's first moon crew in fifty years and also the first to include a woman and someone not from the U.S..

NASA revealed the four crew members set to fly to the moon.

Astronaut Reid Wiseman is the mission’s commander and will be joined by African American Naval Aviator Victor Glover, North Carolina State University graduate who holds the world record for the longest space flight by a woman Christina Koch, and Canada’s Jeremy Hansen.

Each member are space veterans excluding Hansen.

The four are expected to be NASA’s first moon crew in fifty years and also the first to include a woman and someone not from the U.S..

If the Artemis program moon mission plays out as expected, the crew will take flight by the end of next year.