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Elizabeth Howell, Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022 and attended the Artemis 2 crew announcement in Houston on April 3, 2023. Elizabeth's on-site reporting includes two human spaceflight launches from Kazakhstan, three space shuttle missions in Florida, and embedded reporting from a simulated Mars mission in Utah. Assuming Artemis 2 completes everything successfully, the first landing mission (Artemis 3) may be as soon as 2025. Related: Artemis 2 launch date The Artemis 2 launch date is tentatively set for November 2024, but that depends on the readiness of a few items. NASA The crewed Artemis 2 mission requires new spacesuits that are built to endure the cislunar environment, which has more radiation than inside low Earth orbit where astronauts receive more protection. Related: As of August 2022, NASA is Who will fly on Artemis 2? The Artemis II crew, including Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen (at left) and NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman and Christina Koch, pose together in an Orion spacecraft simulator at Johnson Space Center. (Image credit: NASA/James Blair) TheArtemis 2crew includes commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialists The crew was announced on April 3, 2023, during an event held at Ellington Field, home to NASA's aircraft operations located near the "Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy, each of these adventurers has their own story. But together, they represent our creed: E pluribus ...

Wiseman is also a military man. 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 selected Wiseman as one of the nine members of its 2009 astronaut class. He finished training in 2011 and in May 2014 launched on his first and (to date) only spaceflight, a 165-day mission to the Wiseman served as chief of NASA's astronaut office from December 2020 to November 2022. 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 "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; "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 Artemis 2 pilot Victor Glover of NASA Artemis 2 pilot Victor Glover. (Image credit: NASA) Victor Glover, 46, is from Pomona, California. He received a bachelor's degree in engineering from California Polytechnic State Universityin 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. Like Wiseman, Glover bec...

A Canadian astronaut and three NASA veterans, including one of the world's most experienced female spacewalkers, will fly around the moon next year in the first piloted voyage beyond Earth orbit since the Apollo program ended 50 years ago, the space agency announced Monday. NASA's "Artemis II is more than a mission to the moon and back," Glover said. "It's more than a mission that has to happen before we send people to the surface of the moon. It is the next step on the journey that gets humanity to Mars. ... And this crew will never forget that." "It's been more than a half-century since astronauts journeyed to the moon. Well, folks, that's about to change.The mission to the moon will launch four pioneers, but it will carry more than astronauts — Artemis II will carry the hopes of millions of people around the world," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said before introducing the crew. Official crew portrait for Artemis II, from left: NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, taken on March 29, 2023. Josh Valcarcel/NASA Navy Capt. Reid Wiseman, 47, a widowed father of two, is a veteran F/A-18F Super Hornet pilot who holds a master's in systems engineering. He launched aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 2014 and spent 165 days aboard the space station, then served as chief astronaut after his return to Earth. Koch, 44, holds a master's in electrical engineering who has experience in Antarctic research. She als...

NASA continues to target the end of 2025 for the first Artemis astronaut moon landing, but SpaceX faces a daunting number of test flights with its Super Heavy rocket and Starship lunar lander between now and then, raising concerns the flight "probably" will slip into 2026, a top NASA manager says. With the Artemis 3 moon landing mission two-and-a-half years away, SpaceX has launched just one integrated Super Heavy/Starship rocket, and that flight An artist's impression of the SpaceX Starship moon lander variant on the lunar surface. NASA "I get a lot of questions, will you make the (moon landing) date? Well, they need to get flying before we can get any kind of assessment," Jim Free, NASA's chief of exploration systems development, told the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Academies during a meeting Wednesday. "They have a significant number of launches to go," he said. "And that, of course, gives me concern about the December of 2025 date." NASA's Artemis program is aimed at returning astronauts to the moon with landings near the lunar south pole where deposits of ice might be present in permanently shadowed craters. Along with possibly using ice to produce air, water and rocket propellants, NASA sees Artemis as a critical testing ground before eventual flights to Mars. The space agency launched its first Artemis mission last year, sending an unpiloted Orion capsule around the moon and back in the maiden flight of the Space Launch System heavy-lift ...

Rendering of 13 candidate landing regions for NASA's Artemis 3 mission. Each region is approximately 9.3 by 9.3 miles (15 by 15 kilometers). A landing site is a location within those regions with an approximate 328-foot (100 meters) radius. (Image credit: NASA) Super-cold craters New research suggests that future visitors to the lunar south pole region should be on the lookout for evidence of life in super-cold permanently shadowed craters — organisms that could have made the trek from Earth. Microbial life could potentially survive in the harsh conditions near the lunar south pole, suggested Prabal Saxena, a planetary researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "One of the most striking things our team has found is that, given recent research on the ranges in which certain microbial life can survive, there may be potentially habitable niches for such life in relatively protected areas on some airless bodies," Saxena told Space.com. Indeed, the lunar south pole may possess the properties that can enable survival and potentially even episodic growth of certain microbial life, Saxena said. "We're currently working on understanding which specific organisms may be most suited for surviving in such regions and what areas of the lunar polar regions, including places of interest relevant to exploration, may be most amenable to supporting life," he said. In work presented at a recent science workshop on the potential Artemis 3 landing sites, Saxena and...

NASA continues to target the end of 2025 for the first Artemis astronaut moon landing, but SpaceX faces a daunting number of test flights with its Super Heavy rocket and Starship lunar lander between now and then, raising concerns the flight "probably" will slip into 2026, a top NASA manager says. With the Artemis 3 moon landing mission two-and-a-half years away, SpaceX has launched just one integrated Super Heavy/Starship rocket, and that flight An artist's impression of the SpaceX Starship moon lander variant on the lunar surface. NASA "I get a lot of questions, will you make the (moon landing) date? Well, they need to get flying before we can get any kind of assessment," Jim Free, NASA's chief of exploration systems development, told the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Academies during a meeting Wednesday. "They have a significant number of launches to go," he said. "And that, of course, gives me concern about the December of 2025 date." NASA's Artemis program is aimed at returning astronauts to the moon with landings near the lunar south pole where deposits of ice might be present in permanently shadowed craters. Along with possibly using ice to produce air, water and rocket propellants, NASA sees Artemis as a critical testing ground before eventual flights to Mars. The space agency launched its first Artemis mission last year, sending an unpiloted Orion capsule around the moon and back in the maiden flight of the Space Launch System heavy-lift ...

Rendering of 13 candidate landing regions for NASA's Artemis 3 mission. Each region is approximately 9.3 by 9.3 miles (15 by 15 kilometers). A landing site is a location within those regions with an approximate 328-foot (100 meters) radius. (Image credit: NASA) Super-cold craters New research suggests that future visitors to the lunar south pole region should be on the lookout for evidence of life in super-cold permanently shadowed craters — organisms that could have made the trek from Earth. Microbial life could potentially survive in the harsh conditions near the lunar south pole, suggested Prabal Saxena, a planetary researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "One of the most striking things our team has found is that, given recent research on the ranges in which certain microbial life can survive, there may be potentially habitable niches for such life in relatively protected areas on some airless bodies," Saxena told Space.com. Indeed, the lunar south pole may possess the properties that can enable survival and potentially even episodic growth of certain microbial life, Saxena said. "We're currently working on understanding which specific organisms may be most suited for surviving in such regions and what areas of the lunar polar regions, including places of interest relevant to exploration, may be most amenable to supporting life," he said. In work presented at a recent science workshop on the potential Artemis 3 landing sites, Saxena and...

Elizabeth Howell, Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022 and attended the Artemis 2 crew announcement in Houston on April 3, 2023. Elizabeth's on-site reporting includes two human spaceflight launches from Kazakhstan, three space shuttle missions in Florida, and embedded reporting from a simulated Mars mission in Utah. Assuming Artemis 2 completes everything successfully, the first landing mission (Artemis 3) may be as soon as 2025. Related: Artemis 2 launch date The Artemis 2 launch date is tentatively set for November 2024, but that depends on the readiness of a few items. NASA The crewed Artemis 2 mission requires new spacesuits that are built to endure the cislunar environment, which has more radiation than inside low Earth orbit where astronauts receive more protection. Related: As of August 2022, NASA is Who will fly on Artemis 2? The Artemis II crew, including Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen (at left) and NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman and Christina Koch, pose together in an Orion spacecraft simulator at Johnson Space Center. (Image credit: NASA/James Blair) TheArtemis 2crew includes commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialists The crew was announced on April 3, 2023, during an event held at Ellington Field, home to NASA's aircraft operations located near the "Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy, each of these adventurers has their own story. But together, they represent our creed: E pluribus ...

A Canadian astronaut and three NASA veterans, including one of the world's most experienced female spacewalkers, will fly around the moon next year in the first piloted voyage beyond Earth orbit since the Apollo program ended 50 years ago, the space agency announced Monday. NASA's "Artemis II is more than a mission to the moon and back," Glover said. "It's more than a mission that has to happen before we send people to the surface of the moon. It is the next step on the journey that gets humanity to Mars. ... And this crew will never forget that." "It's been more than a half-century since astronauts journeyed to the moon. Well, folks, that's about to change.The mission to the moon will launch four pioneers, but it will carry more than astronauts — Artemis II will carry the hopes of millions of people around the world," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said before introducing the crew. Official crew portrait for Artemis II, from left: NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, taken on March 29, 2023. Josh Valcarcel/NASA Navy Capt. Reid Wiseman, 47, a widowed father of two, is a veteran F/A-18F Super Hornet pilot who holds a master's in systems engineering. He launched aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 2014 and spent 165 days aboard the space station, then served as chief astronaut after his return to Earth. Koch, 44, holds a master's in electrical engineering who has experience in Antarctic research. She als...

Wiseman is also a military man. 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 selected Wiseman as one of the nine members of its 2009 astronaut class. He finished training in 2011 and in May 2014 launched on his first and (to date) only spaceflight, a 165-day mission to the Wiseman served as chief of NASA's astronaut office from December 2020 to November 2022. 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 "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; "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 Artemis 2 pilot Victor Glover of NASA Artemis 2 pilot Victor Glover. (Image credit: NASA) Victor Glover, 46, is from Pomona, California. He received a bachelor's degree in engineering from California Polytechnic State Universityin 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. Like Wiseman, Glover bec...