Nasa to reveal crew for 2024 flight around the Moon

HOUSTON – Nasa is to reveal the names on Monday of the astronauts – three Americans and a Canadian – who will fly around the Moon next year, a prelude to returning humans to the lunar surface for the first time in a half century. The mission, Artemis II, is scheduled to take place in November 2024 with the four-person crew circling the Moon but not landing on it. As part of the Artemis programme, Nasa aims to send astronauts to the Moon in 2025 – more than five decades after the historic Apollo missions ended in 1972. Besides putting…