NASA has announced the first woman and first Black astronauts to join a four-member team to fly around the moon in more than 50 years.
The agency revealed that US Navy aviator Victor Glover was chosen as the Artemis II pilot, and Christina Koch, an engineer who already holds the record for the longest continuous spaceflight by a woman, as a mission specialist.
Aside from being a part of the second crewed flight of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, Glover will be the first astronaut of color to go on a lunar mission.
Additionally, Jeremy Hansen, the first Canadian to ever be selected for a mission to the moon, will serve as a mission specialist, while Reid Wiseman, a veteran of the International Space Station, will lead the four-person crew as Artemis II mission commander.
