SPACE reports that the Artemis II crew has begun training for the mission. The astronauts will “be the first humans ever to fly atop NASA’s Space Launch System megarocket and ride in the agency’s Orion spacecraft.” The four Artemis II astronauts “are NASA commander Reid Wiseman, NASA pilot Victor Glover (the first Black astronaut to leave low Earth orbit), NASA mission specialist Christina Koch (the first woman on a moon mission) and Jeremy Hansen (the first Canadian to go beyond Earth orbit).” Wiseman, Glover and Koch “all have accumulated many months of experience on International Space Station missions and in many cases set records.”
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AIAA Statement on the Artemis II Crew
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April 3, 2023 – Reston, Va. – The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) issued the following statement from AIAA Executive Director Dan Dumbacher:
“Congratulations to Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen, Christina Hammock Koch, and Reid Wiseman on being named the four explorers who comprise the crew of the Artemis II mission. You are inspiring the Artemis generation through this first crewed mission to the vicinity of the moon in more than 50 years. Congratulations to NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) on this historic announcement.
We were thrilled to witness the engineering marvel of the successful Artemis I mission last year. The Artemis program – including the Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft, and the ground systems needed to launch them – provides a fundamental new capability enabling us to retain and grow global cooperation and peace in space by establishing a sustainable presence on the moon in preparation for human exploration beyond Earth’s orbit. We look forward to the continued progress of the Artemis program by the NASA/industry team and the international partners to land the first woman and the first person of color on the lunar surface in the future.
We can’t wait to join Victor, Jeremy, Christina, and Reid as we go together for all humanity to the moon and back in 2024. They are shaping the future of aerospace!”
Media contact: Rebecca B. Gray, [email protected], 804-397-5270
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Artemis II Astronauts on Being Selected for Moon Mission
CBS News reports that the crew of four astronauts who will fly by the moon in NASA’s first crewed moon mission in over 50 years was announced on Monday. The three Americans and one Canadian now begin their 18-month training program in preparation for the historic trip around the moon. Astronaut Victor Glover, who will be the first black astronaut to experience prolonged spaceflight, said of his selection that he won the “astronaut Powerball.” The crew’s mission “will mark them as part of an exclusive group of merely two dozen Americans who have had the rare opportunity to observe the moon up close.” While the chosen crew expressed humility and that the mission was bigger than the individuals involved, excitement was still the primary emotion of the day. Christina Koch, who will be the first female astronaut to orbit the moon, expressed the need for focus, and said of her inclusion, “We are taught as astronauts to turn that fear, as you may call it, and turn it into focus and our focus is 100% on being successful in this vehicle.”
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