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The next passenger is Victor Glover, serving as pilot. Glover was selected for the Astronaut Corps in 2013, after logging more than 3,000 flight hours in more than 40 different aircraft. He was the pilot for the Crew-1 mission, the first mission that used a SpaceX rocket and capsule to bring astronauts to the International Space Station, and served as a flight engineer on the ISS. The only female crew member is Mission Specialist Christina Hammock Koch. She has spent 328 days in space, more than any other woman, over three ISS missions. She has also participated in six different spacewalks, including the first three all-women spacewalks. Koch is an engineer by profession who previously worked at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Among the crew is a Canadian, Jeremy Hansen. He has participated in space simulations such as Nemo 19, in which he lived in a space on the ocean floor to simulate deep space exploration. Prior to being selected into the Canadian Astronaut Corps in 2009, he was an F-18 aircraft pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force. These four astronauts have had very unique experiences in space. Like the Apollo astronauts, three of them began their careers as military pilots. Two, Wiseman and Glover, were trained test pilots, as were most of the Apollo astronauts. Mission specialist coaches, with their engineering expertise, are more typical of modern astronauts.

The first woman and the first black man to go to the moon
The position of mission or payload specialist was created for the spacecraft program, making spaceflight possible for people with a more scientific background. A Collaborative, Diverse Future Unlike the Apollo program of the 1960s and 1970s, with Artemis, NASA placed a heavy emphasis on building a politically stable lunar program by fostering the participation of a diverse group of people and countries. The participation of other countries in NASA missions – in this case Canada – is particularly important to the Artemis program and the Artemis II crew. International cooperation is beneficial for many reasons. First, it lets NASA rely on the strengths and expertise of American allies’ engineers, researchers and space agencies, and to split the technologies and production costs.

It also helps provide the US with international leadership in the space as competition with other countries – especially China – intensifies. The Artemis II crew is also significantly more diverse than the Apollo astronauts. NASA has often stated that the Artemis program will send the first woman and the first black man to the Moon. Together with Koch and Glover, Artemis II is the first step toward fulfilling that promise and toward the goal of inspiring future generations of space explorers. The four astronauts aboard Artemis II will be the first humans to walk in the vicinity of the Moon since 1972. The flyby will take the Orion capsule closer to orbit the far side of the Moon.

Artemis III vehicle will go at the end of 2025
During the flight, the crew will monitor the spacecraft and test a new communications system that will allow them to send more data and communicate with Earth more easily than previous systems. If all goes according to plan, Artemis III will mark the return of humans to the lunar surface in late 2025, this time with a diverse crew. Although the Artemis program has a long way to go to return humans to the surface of the Moon, the announcement of the Artemis II crew shows how NASA intends to get there in a diverse and collaborative way.

Wendy Whitman Cobb, Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, Ayr University