"We are here today with the mission to introduce the world to the crew of Artemis II for names, for explorers, for my friends, answering the call to once more rocket away from Earth, and chart a course around the moon," Joe Acaba, chief of NASA's astronaut office, said at the start of the event.
This Nov. 19, 1969 file photo released by NASA shows one of the astronauts of the Apollo 12 space mission on the Moon, standing by the US flag on the Moon and the Saturn V lunar module.Koch, 43, made history with fellow astronaut Jessica Mer in October 2019 when they performed the first all-female spacewalk together.
Not only will this be Hansen's first mission in space but he will also be the first Canadian to ever travel to the moon.It comes after the Artemis I mission was completed in December last year after spending 25.5 days in space and making a 1.4-million-mile journey around the moon, according to NASA. It will be the first crewed mission aboard NASA's new Orion spacecraft and the first to launch on the agency's new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System.
NASA's Artemis 1 lifts off from launch pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., carrying the Orion spacecraft on a mission to orbit the moon on Nov. 16, 2022.This will be the first set of missions that NASA has used to send a crew to the moon since the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, more than 50 years ago.
In total, the Artemis expedition includes four missions, each of which will cost roughly $4.1 billion. The project will cost up to $93 billion by 2025, according toArtemis III plans to send four astronauts to the moon in 2025 while Artemis IV plans to be the second lunar landing in 2027.
How about China growing plants on the moon since 2019 at least?
Tv in real life .. Star Trek Orginal crew resemblance
why is a canadian part of a nasa mission?
Of course there are no trans people TransRightsAreHumanRights
I miss Bill Nelson.
Do you think they’ll actually go this time
CommanderChuck1 I miss Bill Nelson.
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Hollywood?
This should be a Lunar orbit mission instead of a free-return. You can test life-support systems without a crew. NASA has lost it's way.
Please add Biden to the moon mission for World peace and prosperity!
GioBenitez You said AstroVicGlover would be one of the ones chosen.
Why is there a Canadian
Ugh build probes and telescopes endmannedspace
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