Who are the astronauts on Artemis II?
Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen will be on board Artemis II.
Wiseman, 50, is a retired Navy captain from Baltimore, Maryland, and will serve as the Artemis II commander.
Glover, 49, is one of NASA’s few black astronauts, a Navy captain, and a former combat pilot from Pomona, California.
Koch is a 47-year-old electrical engineer from Jacksonville, North Carolina. She holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman – 328 days – and took part in the first all-female spacewalk during her lengthy stay at the space station in 2019.
Hansen, 50, is an astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency and will be making his first spaceflight.
He will be serving as his country’s first emissary to the moon and is also a fighter pilot and physicist.
Pictured: Hansen, Glover, Wiseman and Koch
