NASA Names Eager Artemis II Crew Of Four Aviation Week Network

HOUSTON — The first astronauts selected to travel to the Moon in more than a half century aboard NASA’s Artemis II mission are NASA’s Reid Wiseman, who will command; Victor Glover, who will pilot; Christina Koch, a mission specialist; and the Canadian Space Agency’s (CSA) Jeremy Hansen, also a mission specialist. Their names were unveiled by officials from NASA and the CSA in April 3 ceremonies at NASA Johnson Space Center facilities at nearby Ellington Airport here. Their launch on the planned 10-day Artemis II mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard an Orion capsule atop a Space…