NASA REVEALS CREW FOR HISTORIC MOON MISSION

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) finally revealed the crew for the historic Artemis mission which will be the first lunar voyage for mankind in over half a century. The mission scheduled for 2024 is considered a prelude to the Mars mission where NASA plans to send humans to the brown planet for the first time in history.

Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch, and Jeremy Hansen will crew the Artemis II mission, NASA revealed at a ceremony on Monday in Houston, Texas. The team consists of the First woman, the first person of color, and the first Canadian to be assigned to a lunar mission.

“For the first time in more than 50 years, these individuals — the Artemis II crew — will be the first humans to fly to the vicinity of the Moon,” Johnson Space Center director Vanessa Wyche, said in a statement.

NASA also announced a new space suit during the ceremony which is the first major update for the suit which has been in use for decades and replacement parts are complicated and expensive.

The Artemis program, a global effort to create a “long-term presence at the moon,” will see only its second launch in 2024. The last time NASA had a manned crew on the moon was in 1972 during the Apollo program.