Meet the Artemis 2 Astronauts Taking Us Back to the Moon!

NASA’s Artemis 2 mission will make history as the first crewed mission to the Moon in over 50 years. And now we finally know who will be making that epic journey!

The Artemis 2 mission will have a crew of four. Three will be NASA astronauts: Reid Wiseman as commander, Victor Glover as pilot and Christina Koch as a mission specialist. The fourth crewmember is from the Canadian Space Agency: Jeremy Hansen as a mission specialist.

The selected crew include the first woman and person of color to fly to the Moon. Additionally, the Canadian astronaut will be the first person from a country other than the United States to fly into deep space.

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0:00 Intro
0:36 Meet the Artemis 2 crew
2:44 Mission profile
7:41 Hardware status
8:57 Significance of Artemis 2

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[OrbitalVelocity]

Who else is super excited to see this crew fly around the Moon? 🚀🌕

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[zanpsimer]

And in 1972 I was 10 years old. I’ve been waiting 50 years for this!

[jaytc]

Good luck and Godspeed, Capricorn One! We're all behind you!

[eannamcnamara]

Not many people get to know in advance that they'll go down in history, these lucky people do!

[iitzfizz]

I wonder if anybody from ESA is going to be selected for any of the Artemis flights. Would be cool to get a European in on it. It's cool that a Canadian has been selected.

[javierderivero]

Very interesting to see the differences with apollo...of course the woman and the african american....but something I notice ...not one of them is under 40 years old...during apollo most of the astronauts ...if not all were under 40

[needlepark]

Why are we letting a Canadian on? Can we really trust him?

[needlepark]

What happened Boeings not participating? 😮

[vincemartinez]

With all the new advances in the technology that Space X has accomplished in lowering cost by returning & reusing booster rockets & other equipment that lessens space debris & save’s on turnaround time. I find it hard to understand why only the capsule will return to Earth from Artemis missions ?

[abvmoose]

Ok so only a flyby. Funny I though the last one was a fly by based on how little of the moon we actually got to see and this one will be even farther away. A bit of a shame to half-ass it like that when we havent been there for half s century and now when were finally taking the time to go out there were gonna do such a poor job at it. Would have been nice with an actual closeup of the moon.

[Dave-gyhx]

This will be the first crew that will never return from space. This crew is on a doom mission built by boeing. The command module has so many problems that it has been delayed and delayed. I predict they will make it to the moon and lift back off, but they will not make it back to earth.

[Idk-otfx]

Imagine if starship dearmoon launches before this!😂