For the first time, a woman and a non-white person will land on the moon.
The United States Space Agency NASA named 4 people who will be next year with the “Artemis II” mission fly around the moon: NASA astronaut Cristina Cook, her colleagues Victor Glover It is Reid Wiseman and the Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen.
They would be the first people to be close to the moon since astronauts on the last “Apollo” mission set foot on our moon in 1972, as NASA announced on Monday.
Important data collected
The Artemis II mission is currently for November 2024 planned. It would be the first manned launch of Artemis following the successful test run of the Artemis I mission in December. The unmanned capsule “Orion” was round 1.4 million miles (approx. 2.25 million kilometers) traveled through space, flew around the moon and landed in the Pacific after about 26 days in space. She had collected important data.
The unmanned test mission was considered an important step towards returning humans to the Moon, with the long-term goal of a journey to Mars. About a year after “Artemis II”, another manned flight, including a moon landing, will follow with “Artemis III”. The “Artemis” program, named after the Greek goddess of the moon, aims to take a woman and person of color to the moon for the first time.
The European Space Agency ESA and space agencies of several other countries are involved in “Artemis”.