ORLANDO, Fla. - NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) have announced the four astronauts who will blast off aboard an Orion spacecraft on an out-of-this-world mission that will take them on a 10-day journey around the moon in 2024.The big announcement was made Monday morning at NASA Johnson Space Center’s Ellington Field in Houston."The Artemis II crew represents thousands of people working tirelessly to bring us to the stars.
This is their crew, this is our crew, this is humanity's crew," said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. "NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Hammock Koch, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen, each has their own story, but together, they represent our creed: E pluribus unum – out of many, one.
Together, we are ushering in a new era of exploration for a new generation of star sailors and dreamers – the Artemis Generation." Pictured: Reid Wiseman (Photo via NASA) Reid Wiseman served as a flight engineer aboard the International Space Station for Expedition 41, according to NASA.During that 165-day mission, Wiseman and his crewmates spent hundreds of hours conducting research in areas like human physiology, medicine, physical science, Earth science and astrophysics.They completed a record 82 hours of research in a single week, NASA added.That mission was Wiseman’s first, which also included almost 13 hours of spacewalking.
NASA says he most recently served as the chief of the Astronaut Office.Pictured: Victor Glover (Photo via NASA) Victor J. Glover, Jr., was selected as an astronaut in 2013 while he was serving as a Legislative Fellow in the U.S.