NASA (United States space agency) and Canadian Space Agency (CSA), this Monday morning (3), Names of astronauts who will fly over the moon for 10 days. For the first time in over 50 years, humans will return near our natural satellite, this time with the Artemis II mission.
At the event held at Ellington Field Air Force Base near Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA, the four crew members announced were: Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover and Mission Specialist 1 Christina Hammock Koch, NASA; and CSA Mission Specialist 2 Jeremy Hansen.
Like the Artemis I, which was successfully completed in December, the Artemis II will be powered by a powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. Among the tests performed, the life support systems of the Orion spacecraft will be evaluated and the technical capabilities expected of the crew to undertake future deep space missions will be verified.
Who are the first astronauts of the Artemis Generation?
The space agency released a video to introduce the four selected astronauts. See below.
The first highly qualified participants of the Artemis mission are not the first time astronauts. For example, Commander Wiseman served as a flight engineer aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on Expedition 41 from May to November 2014. The astronaut logged more than 165 days in space, including 13 hours as a spacewalk leader..
Artemis II will be the second spaceflight of Victor Glover, who also piloted on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission, which landed on May 2, 2021, after spending 168 days on the ISS as a flight engineer on Expedition 64. He served on the ISS as a flight engineer on expeditions 59, 60 and 71 – She holds the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman, staying in space for 328 days.
Besides the American “monsters”, Hansen is a beginner in spaceflight and the first Canadian to fly close to the Moon. Hansen, who was selected as a CSA member in the third Canadian Astronaut Recruitment Campaign in May 2009, served as CAPCOM, the astronaut communications element at NASA’s Mission Control Center at Johnson Center in 2017.
Source: Tec Mundo
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