Victor Glover, a Southern California native, will pilot the Artemis II rocket, which NASA plans to launch in 2024.
The space agency is aiming to send four astronauts around the moon on the next flight, in 2024, and land humans on the lunar surface as early as 2025.
The mission is not supposed to land on the moon, but it would be the closest that humans have gotten to the lunar landscape in more than 50 years. It’s part of NASA’s mission to establish a “long-term presence at the moon” as well as a pathway to Mars.
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