Artemis II will have a black astronaut and a woman | world and science

NASA has revealed the names of the four astronauts who will fly around the moon next year on the Artemis II mission. See who they are:

Jeremy R. Hansen – Role: Mission Specialist;

The US space agency will send another manned mission to the moon. Artemis III will be the first manned NASA mission to land on a natural satellite since 1972.

However, to ensure mission success, NASA is carefully evaluating data from the Artemis I mission, which took place last year without a crew. This is critical to ensuring that the astronauts have a safe and successful mission.

The Artemis I mission’s Orion capsule traveled more than two million kilometers and circled the Moon several times, returning to Earth with three mannequins that collected important data to understand what astronauts would experience on a manned mission.

In addition to lunar exploration, the Artemis I, II, and III missions have a more ambitious long-term goal: to help advance the astronomical sciences to enable human exploration of Mars.