Photo: James Blair, NASA Johnson Space Center | Wikimedia Commons
Artemis II mission is part of a program aiming to return to moon’s surface and establish a sustainable outpost. NASA has named the first woman and the first African American ever assigned as astronauts to a lunar mission, introducing them as part of the four-member team chosen to fly as early as 2024 on what would be the first crewed voyage around the moon in more than 50 years. Christina Koch, an engineer who already holds the record for the longest continuous spaceflight by a woman, was named as a mission specialist, along with Victor Glover, a US Navy aviator, who was selected as the Artemis II pilot. Glover, who was part of the second crewed flight of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, would become the first astronaut of color ever to be sent on a lunar mission. May they spread the word of human achievements to new worlds.
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