NASA Names Diverse Astronaut Crew for Artemis II Moon Mission
The crew's 10-day journey around the moon and back in 2024 is a crucial step toward returning Americans to the moon on a sustained basis.
For the first time in more than half a century, NASA has named a crew of astronauts headed to the moon.
Humans have not ventured more than a few hundred miles off the planet since the return of Apollo 17, NASA's last moon mission, in 1972. After Artemis's experience on the moon, NASA hopes to chart a path to putting humans on Mars, while scientists expect to use what is found there to answer questions about how the solar system formed.
Astronauts in 2023 are much different from those when the United States was in a race to beat the Soviet Union to the moon. During the Apollo program, 24 astronauts flew to the moon, and 12 of them stepped on the surface. All of them were Americans. All of them were white men, many of whom were test pilots... nyt
The crew's 10-day journey around the moon and back in 2024 is a crucial step toward returning Americans to the moon on a sustained basis.
For the first time in more than half a century, NASA has named a crew of astronauts headed to the moon.
Humans have not ventured more than a few hundred miles off the planet since the return of Apollo 17, NASA's last moon mission, in 1972. After Artemis's experience on the moon, NASA hopes to chart a path to putting humans on Mars, while scientists expect to use what is found there to answer questions about how the solar system formed.
Astronauts in 2023 are much different from those when the United States was in a race to beat the Soviet Union to the moon. During the Apollo program, 24 astronauts flew to the moon, and 12 of them stepped on the surface. All of them were Americans. All of them were white men, many of whom were test pilots... nyt
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