Christina Koch was named as a mission specialist, along with Victor Glover who was selected as the Artemis II pilot. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON DC - Nasa on Monday named the first woman and the first African American ever assigned as astronauts to a lunar mission, introducing them as part of the four-member team chosen to fly as early as next year on what would be the first crewed voyage around the moon in more than 50 years.
Glover, who was part of the second crewed flight of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, would become the first astronaut of color ever to be sent on a lunar mission.
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