NASA revealed the names on Monday of the astronauts -- three Americans and a Canadian -- who will fly around the Moon next year, a prelude to returning humans to the lunar surface for the first time in a half century.
The three NASA astronauts -- Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch -- named to the Artemis II mission have all spent time on the International Space Station while Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency will be making his first space flight.
"The largest, most powerful rocket in the world is going to propel them onward and upward into the heavens," Nelson said."We choose to go back to the Moon and then on to Mars." Koch, the only woman on the Artemis II crew, and Hansen, a 47-year-old fighter pilot in the Canadian armed forces, will serve as mission specialists.
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