(Image credit: NASA)Ĭhristina Koch, 44, grew up in Jacksonville, North Carolina and earned bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from North Carolina State University. Related: NASA shows off early plans to send astronauts to Mars for 30 days Artemis 2 mission specialist Christina Hammock Koch of NASAĪrtemis 2 mission specialist Christina Hammock Koch. It views the moon as a stepping stone along this ambitious path the skills and knowledge gained via the Artemis program will help humanity make the leap to Mars, agency officials have said. NASA aims to put boots on the Red Planet in the late 2030s to early 2040s. It is the next step on the journey that gets humanity to Mars." "Because Artemis 2 is more than a mission to the moon, and it's more than a mission that has to happen before we send people to the surface of the moon. "We need to celebrate this moment in human history," Glover said of Artemis 2 on Monday. Glover participated in four spacewalks during that stretch. He has one spaceflight under his belt - Crew-1, the first operational mission to the International Space Station that SpaceX flew for NASA.Ĭrew-1 launched in November 2020 and returned to Earth in May 2021, spending a total of 168 days in orbit. Glover was chosen in NASA's 2013 astronaut class, the next one after Wiseman's, and finished training two years later. According to his NASA biography, Glover logged "3,000 flight hours in more than 40 aircraft, over 400 carrier arrested landings and 24 combat missions." He and his wife Dionna have four children. Like Wiseman, Glover became a fighter pilot in the U.S. He received a bachelor's degree in engineering from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo and then earned three engineering master's degrees - one apiece from Air University at Edwards Air Force Base in California, the Naval Postgraduate School and Air University in Montgomery, Alabama. Victor Glover, 46, is from Pomona, California. Artemis 2 pilot Victor Glover of NASAĪrtemis 2 pilot Victor Glover. "So to the NASA workforce, to our program managers, our center directors that are here, the amazing political support that we feel right now to bring our country together, to bring our entire world together to go explore to get to Mars and beyond, we say a huge thank you," Wiseman said. ( Artemis 3 will land astronauts near the moon's south pole, perhaps as soon as 2025.) "This is a global effort, Artemis 2, and it's only going to get larger with Artemis 3 and beyond as we get private spaceflight involved SpaceX is building our lander for Artemis 3," Wiseman said during the crew announcement ceremony on Monday. And now he can start training for Artemis 2, the first-ever crewed mission of NASA's new deep-space transportation system, which consists of the Orion capsule and Space Launch System rocket. Wiseman served as chief of NASA's astronaut office from December 2020 to November 2022. He served as a crewmember on the orbiting lab's Expedition 40 and Expedition 41 missions before returning to Earth in November 2014. He finished training in 2011 and in May 2014 launched on his first and (to date) only spaceflight, a 165-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS). NASA selected Wiseman as one of the nine members of its 2009 astronaut class. He was designated a Naval Aviator in 1999 and was deployed twice to the Middle East as a fighter pilot, with the second deployment occurring in 2003, according to his official NASA biography. He has two children with his wife Carol, who died of cancer in May 2020.
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