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Here are some highlights from the careers of mission commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialist Christina Koch, all American astronauts, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen.
All three NASA astronauts on Artemis II lunar mission are veterans of Earth orbit science trips to the International Space Station, with the only Canadian joining them on a trip around the moon and back as a space shuttle.
Here are some highlights from the careers of mission commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialist Christina Koch, all American astronauts, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, also a mission specialist.
Mission Commander Reid Wiseman
Wiseman, 50, logged 165 days aboard the International Space Station during a 2014 mission, flying to a rotating platform aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. A former US Navy test pilot, he later served as NASA’s chief astronaut before being selected as Artemis II commander.
Pilot Victor Glover
Glover, 49, spent 168 days in orbit beginning in 2020 as pilot of NASA’s Crew-1 flight, the first full ISS mission using SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule to carry astronauts to the space station. Before joining NASA, he flew more than 40 flights during a US Navy career that included combat deployments and pilot test missions. A veteran of four space flights, he is the first Black astronaut ever to be sent on a lunar mission.
Mission Specialist Christina Koch
Koch, 47, set the record in 2019 for the longest space flight by a woman, spending 328 days aboard the ISS, and was part of NASA’s first three all-female space missions. Trained as an electrical engineer and physicist, he previously worked as an engineer for NASA and conducted extensive research expeditions to Antarctica. She is the first woman to fly on a mission to the moon.
Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen
Hansen, 50, a colonel in the Royal Canadian Air Force, is the first Canadian, and the first non-American, to be sent on a lunar mission even as he makes his first spacewalk. He was elected to Canada’s astronaut corps in 2009, and his seat aboard Artemis II reflects the longstanding US-Canada partnership in human spaceflight, including Canada’s contributions to the robots used aboard the ISS.
– Rappler.com
