Astronaut Who Stunned Tom Cruise Selected For NASA’s Moon Mission

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced the first batch of astronauts that will fly around the Moon as part of the agency's Artemis 2 mission. NASA's Artemis 2 is expected to take to the skies next year, and it will see the crew fly inside the Orion spacecraft in a lunar orbit before returning to Earth. The crew unveiled today includes astronauts who have flown to space before, and the space agency was joined by officials of the Canadian Space Agency as part of today's announcement. NASA Administrator Bil Nelson announced the crew to members of the press and other guests at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

As it announced the crew for the Artemis 2 mission, the space agency is already making progress with the rocket that will fly them to the Moon. After launching the SLS last year as part of a highly anticipated test flight, NASA has already assembled the rocket's core stage that will power the Artemis 2 mission. NASA teams joined the rocket's engine section to the four other sections of the center core in mid-March. Following this, teams will mate the rocket's massive RS-25 engines to the engine stage and then prepare to complete the vehicle by adding the two solid rocket boosters.

The four astronauts selected for flying the Artemis 2 mission are Christina Koch, Jeremy Hansen, Victor Glover, and Gregory Wiseman. Koch will be a mission specialist, Glovter will be its pilot, Hansen, another specialist and Wiseman will command the crew for their maiden voyage around the Moon. Not all of the crew selected have spaceflight experience.

Koch has spent