Washington, United States: NASA will announce the names next month of the four astronauts -- three Americans and one Canadian -- who will fly around the Moon next year, the head of the US space agency said Thursday (Friday in Manila).
NASA administrator Bill Nelson said the crew members of the mission known as Artemis 2 would be revealed on April 3.'Astronauts -- three from America and one from Canada -- will fly around the moon and they'll test NASA's Space Launch System, which is our rocket, and the spacecraft called Orion,' Nelson said.The first Artemis mission wrapped up in December with an uncrewed Orion capsule returning safely to Earth after a 25-day journey around the Moon.
Artemis 3, scheduled for about 12 months after Artemis 2, will see astronauts land for the first time on the south pole of the Moon.NASA hopes to establish a lasting human presence on the lunar surface and later launch a years-long trip to Mars.As part of the Artemis missions, NASA is planning to send a woman and a person of color to the Moon for the first time.Only 12 people -- all of them white men -- have set foot on the Moon.
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