The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced the names of the first core team of 18 astronauts who will be trained for the Artemis Moon program.
Vice President Mike Pence, who also chairs the National Space Council, read the names of the 18 astronauts and said, “I want to call you the heroes of the future who will take us back to the moon, and more.”
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said, “This is the first core team of Project Artemis astronauts, and I made it very clear that there will be more.”
The team of 18 astronauts, half of whom are women. Five arrived on the day, wearing masks, walked on stage and waved.
“Artemis” is a human return to the moon program, since the end of NASA’s Apollo program in 1972, so far no human landing on the moon.
NASA hopes to launch the first “Artemis” mission next year, but not manned, the purpose of the mission is to test a giant rocket called “Space Launch System” (Space Launch System) and astronauts to ride the future Orion spacecraft (Orion).
The first manned mission of “Artemis” is scheduled for 2023, and this mission will not land, but only skim the moon.
The next mission, called Artemis 3, will go to the lunar surface, possibly near the Moon’s south pole, where scientists have previously found craters with frozen water and are deeply interested.
Bradenstein mentioned the “Artemis 3” mission, which will send “the next male astronaut and the first female astronaut” to the moon.
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