DISCOVERIES
TWO OF THESE ASTRONAUTS WILL BE THE FIRST HUMANS TO STEP ON THE MOON SINCE 1972
SPACEFLIGHT
The crew of four will conduct the final test flight in NASA’s Artemis programme towards the end of next year
On 3 April, NASA announced the names of the four astronauts who will crew Artemis 2, in preparation for the first Moon landing in over 50 years. The crew, formed of three NASA astronauts and one astronaut from the Canadian Space Agency, includes the first woman and the first African American to be assigned to a lunar mission.