NASA reveals the names of the four astronauts who will go around the Moon in 2024

Objective moon. NASA presented on Monday April 3 the four astronauts who will travel around the Earth satellite at the end of 2024. The Americans Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Hammock Koch, as well as the Canadian Jeremy Hansen will form the crew of Artemis 2.

They will be the first human beings to travel to the Moon, without landing there, since the last Apollo mission, in 1972. The mission commander, Reid Wiseman, as well as his two compatriots have already flown in space. However, it will be a first for Jeremy Hansen. The four were congratulated in a Sunday call by President Joe Biden, the White House said.

Towards a sustainable presence on the Moon

The Artemis program intends to eventually sign the return of humans to the Moon with the establishment of a lasting lunar presence, by the construction of a base on the surface of the Moon and a space station in orbit around it. . Learning to live on the Moon should make it possible to test all the technologies necessary for an even more complex journey: sending a crew to Mars.

The launch of Artémis 2 is currently scheduled for November 2024. The mission should last about ten days. The four astronauts will travel with NASA’s SLS rocket, the most powerful in the world today. They will take place at the top of this rocket, in the Orion capsule, which will detach once in space and take them around the Moon. When returning, they will land in the ocean.