NASA on Monday announced a crew of
four astronauts who will head to the moon within the next two years. The crew
will travel around the moon and back on a 10-day mission.
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The four astronauts are: Victor Glover,
Christina Koch, and Reid Wiseman of NASA, and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian
Space Agency.
Reid Wiseman, commanderUntil recently, G. Reid Wiseman, 47, served
as NASA’s chief astronaut, meaning that he would have been responsible for
selecting the four astronauts that flew on Artemis II. But he stepped down from
that post last November, and became eligible for assignment to the moon-bound
crews of the Artemis missions.
Selected as part of the 2009 astronaut
class, Wiseman, a captain in the US Navy, spent 165 days in orbit at the International
Space Station in 2014. Before joining NASA, he served two deployments in the
Middle East.
Victor Glover, pilotVictor J. Glover, Jr, 46, was the pilot of
the first operational mission of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule to the
International Space Station from November 2020 to May 2021. He spent 168 days
on the space station. He was the first Black man assigned as a crew member on
the station — and participated in four spacewalks. Glover, a captain in the US
Navy, was selected to be an astronaut in 2013.
Originally from Pomona, California, Glover
graduated with a bachelor’s degree in general engineering from California Polytechnic
State University in 1999. From 2007 through 2010, he earned three master’s
degrees: in flight test engineering, systems engineering, and military
operational art and science.
Glover is often referred to by his
counterparts as Ike, a nod to a call sign a former commanding officer gave him
that stands for “I know everything”.
Christina Koch, mission specialistChristina H. Koch, 44, holds the record for
the longest single spaceflight by a woman — 328 days — and she, with another
active astronaut, Jessica Meir, performed the first three all-female spacewalks
in 2019 and 2020. She also conducted three other spacewalks. Her six spacewalks
totaled 42 hours and 15 minutes.
Before being selected as an astronaut in
2013, Koch worked as an electrical engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight
Center in Maryland. She later became a researcher in the US Antarctic Program,
which included a yearlong stay at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Other
places she has worked include the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
Laboratory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, spending
time in Alaska and American Samoa.
Jeremy Hansen, mission specialistJeremy Hansen is one of four active
Canadian astronauts. He was selected by the Canadian Space Agency to be an
astronaut in 2009. He is 47 years old and was born in Ontario.
Hansen, who served as a fighter pilot in
the Canadian Armed Forces, has yet to fly to space. In his time representing
the Canadian Space Agency at NASA, he has served as a capsule communicator
between mission control in Houston and the astronauts aboard the International
Space Station. He was also the first Canadian tasked with leading an astronaut
class.
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