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All of a sudden, NASA’s return to the Moon feels rather real

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman (bottom), Victor Glover (top), and Christina Hammock Koch (left), and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen (right) were announced Monday as the crew of Artemis II.

Enlarge / NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman (bottom), Victor Glover (top), and Christina Hammock Koch (left), and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen (right) were announced Monday as the crew of Artemis II. (credit: NASA)

NASA on Monday staged the kind of celebratory event it has wanted to hold for five decades—the naming a new crew to fly to the Moon.

The Artemis II mission will fly four astronauts around the Moon during an approximately week-long flight. This will be the first time that humans have left low-Earth orbit since December 1972, at the conclusion of the Apollo 17 mission.

“It’s been more than a half-century since astronauts journeyed to the Moon,” NASA administrator Bill Nelson said Monday. “That’s about to change.”

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Author: Eric Berger. [Source Link (*), Ars Technica – All content]

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