Among the four is Victor Glover, who spent six months on the International Space Station, but at NASA for some reason they emphasize his skin color, as well as Christina Hemock Cook - the first woman to fly to the lunar orbit
The crew of NASA's Artemis 2 mission (left to right): NASA astronauts Christina Hemock Cook, Reed Wiseman (seated), Victor Glover and Canadian space agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. Credit: NASA
NASA and the Canadian Space Agency have announced the four astronauts who will orbit the moon on Artemis 2, the first manned mission on NASA's orbit to establish a long-term presence on the moon for science and exploration using Artemis. The agencies unveiled the crew members Monday morning at an event at Ellington Field near NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
"The Artemis 2 crew represents the thousands of people who work tirelessly to get us to the stars. It's their crew, it's our crew, it's humanity's crew," said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. "NASA astronauts Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Hammock Cook and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen each have their own story, but together they represent the motto Ours: from many to one. Together we are opening a new era of exploration for a new generation of stargazers and dreamers - the Artemis generation."
The roles of the crew members are as follows: Commander Reed Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist 1 Christina Hamock Cook and Mission Specialist 2 Jeremy Hansen. They will work as a team to run an ambitious series of demonstrations during the test flight.
The test flight of Artemis 2, which will last approximately ten days, will be launched on a Space Launch System rocket, will prove the life support systems of the Orion spacecraft and will attack the capabilities and techniques needed for humans to live and work in deep space.
"We are returning to space and Canada is at the center of this exciting journey," said François-Philippe Champagne, the minister responsible for the Canadian Space Agency. "Thanks to our long-standing collaboration with NASA, a Canadian astronaut will fly on this historic mission. On behalf of all Canadians, I would like to congratulate Jeremy for being at the forefront of one of humanity's most ambitious missions ever. Canada's participation in the Artemis program is not only a defining chapter in our history in space, but also a testament to the close friendship and partnership between our two countries."
The flight, which will follow on from the successful Artemis 1 unmanned mission completed in December, will pave the way for the first woman and first non-white man on the moon under the Artemis program and pave the way for exploration missions From future long-term manned missions to the Moon, and eventually to Mars. This is NASA's "Moon to Mars" exploration approach.
"For the first time in more than fifty years, these people - the Artemis 2 crew - will be the first people to fly close to the moon. Among the crew members are the first woman, the first non-white person and the first Canadian on a lunar mission, and all four astronauts will represent the best of humanity as they explore for the benefit of all of us," she said Vanessa Weisz, director of the Johnson Space Center. "This mission paves the way for the expansion of manned exploration of deep space and presents new opportunities for scientific discoveries, commercial, industrial and academic partnerships and the Artemis generation."
Meet the Artemis 2 astronauts
This will be Weizmann's second journey into space, after he was a flight engineer aboard the International Station on Expedition 41 from May to November 2014. Weizmann has logged more than 165 days in space, including nearly 13 hours as a spacewalk leader on two spacewalks outside the station. Prior to his appointment, Weizmann was chief of staff The astronauts from December 2020 to November 2022.
The mission will be Glover's second space flight. He was previously a pilot on NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 that landed on May 2, 2021 after 168 days in space. As a flight engineer on the space station on Expedition 64, he contributed to scientific investigations, technology demonstrations and participated in four space walks.
Also for Cook, the Artemis 2 mission will be the second space flight. She was a flight engineer on the space station on missions 59, 60 and 61. Cook set the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman with 328 days in space and participated in the first all-female spacewalks.
Hansen representing Canada flew into space for the first time. Hansen, a Canadian Army colonel and former fighter pilot, has a bachelor's degree in space science from the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and a master's degree in physics from the same institution in 2000, with a research focus on wide-field satellite tracking. He was one of two recruits selected by the Canadian Launch Agency in May 2009 as part of the third Canadian Astronaut Recruitment Campaign and served as a communications officer at NASA's Mission Control Center in Johnson, and in 2017 was the first Canadian to be assigned to manage a NASA astronaut rotation, and to manage the training of astronaut candidates from the United States and Canada.
"I am very proud of these brave four who will begin our journeys to the moon and beyond," said Norm Knight, director of flight operations at Johnson. "They are exactly what an astronaut corps should be: a mix of people with a lot of ability and expertise and with the skills and determination to face any test as a team. The Artemis 2 mission will be challenging, and will test our limits as we prepare to land astronauts on the moon in the future. With Reed, Victor, Christina and G "Rami on the helms, I have no doubt that we are ready to face any challenge we encounter."
As part of the Artemis missions, NASA will use innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. We will collaborate with commercial and international partners and create the first long-term presence on the moon. Then we'll use what we learn on and around the moon to take the next giant leap: sending the first astronauts to Mars.
More of the topic in Hayadan:
- NASA and Axiom have unveiled the spacesuits that will be used by the astronauts who will land on the moon in Operation Artemis
- The Artemis program is progressing while dealing with budget constraints and inflation
- The Israel Space Agency and NASA sign a declaration of scientific cooperation in the Genesis 2 mission
- Israel joins the project to return to the moon - Artemis
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say are you real They say it themselves but you refuse to listen. As in every movie there must be a woman, gay, trans, black and Asian at least that's how we will be now in politics, the military and science and that's why China is leaving dust for the USA
"the color of his skin" and not "the color of his light"
This is the identity politics of the crazy reactionaries who don't care about science and think that everyone who is not a hetero cis white man was chosen solely because of their difference and never suspect that until this very moment people are chosen because of their "standard" identity
It's the identity politics of the crazy progressives and science doesn't interest them otherwise the best people in the world would be flying and not by color, light, gender and ethnicity