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Astronauts chosen to fly around the moon

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Astronauts, from the US and Canada, chosen for the upcoming moon mission. (NASA)

Four astronauts have been chosen for a lunar mission that could be launched as early as late next year. Two of the astronauts chosen are naval aviators. These astronauts will neither land on the moon, nor orbit it, but go around the moon and return to Earth. NASA hopes to follow this mission with a moon landing as early as 2025.

From military.com:

The four astronauts will be the first to fly NASA’s Orion capsule, launching atop a Space Launch System rocket from Kennedy Space Center no earlier than late 2024. They will not land or even go into lunar orbit, but rather fly around the moon and head straight back to Earth, a prelude to a lunar landing by two others a year later.

The mission’s commander, Reid Wiseman, will be joined by Victor Glover, an African American naval aviator; Christina Koch, who holds the world record for the longest spaceflight by a woman; and Canada’s Jeremy Hansen. All are space veterans except Hansen.

“This is a big day. We have a lot to celebrate and it’s so much more than the four names that have been announced,” said Glover.

This is the first moon crew to include a woman and someone not from the U.S. — and the first crew in NASA’s new moon program named Artemis. Late last year, an empty Orion capsule flew to the moon and back in a long-awaited dress rehearsal.

Military.com has the rest of the article here.

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58 thoughts on “Astronauts chosen to fly around the moon”

  1. It’s amazing that we’re back to this and I hope we successfully get a landing in 2025 and then some of us will be able to say we were there (well watched it on the Tee Vee  😉 ) the first time and then the next time and that will be a big deal.
    AND in before we already know that there will ALWAYS say us landing on the Moon is fake, regardless of if we strapped the doubters ass to a rocket and sent them there themselves.

    1. “there will ALWAYS say us landing on the Moon is fake”

      Same same as those claiming Biden won the election.

    2. I’m waiting for a batch of lunar mission phonies. “Yeah, it was top secret, hush-hush to place a lunar artillery module in the Sea of Tranquility.”

      2. Why would you need lunar artillery? Couldn’t you just drop a shell from the moon, let gravity do the work?

        1. Why would you need the Navy involved?
          I don’t think “Sea of Tranquility” means what they think it does

        2. Read Heinlein’s “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, in which launching large rock’s from the Moon down Earth’s gravity well produces seriously large explosions.

    3. Chip,

      I also work in the same agency. Found this photo in my file cabinet.

      Cheers!
      rgr1480@NASA

    4. I was an actually an extra in the filming of the Moon landings. I played the little girl in the red dress.

        1. I was a child when my parents attached my manly junk and became the man I am today. They said it was because I was always playing with guns and motorcycles which made me Gender Dysphoric. What I found out later was they thought a woman would never make it in a man’s world. They believed a woman could never make it all the way up to Vice President. Well the joke is on them since got our current VP got there with her jayjay. I could have so slept my way to the top.

          At least that is what my shrink told me through hypnosis and recovered memories.

      3. “See that girl with the red dress on?
        She can do it all night long
        She’s a bad girl, she’s a bad girl
        I know a girl that likes to flirt
        She can do it in a mini skirt
        She’s a bad girl, she’s a bad girl”

        ZZ Top

    1. OK, I’ll bite….
      NEXT!!!
      Oh and Eggs?? I’ll take one triple, All The Way.
      

  4. Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t we already circle the moon during the first lunar landing?
    And now we’re going back to do it again (without the landing)?
    What makes this launch so special?
    Let me see……AHHHHH! I think I have it!
    MAH DIVERSITY!
    A whitie, a PoC, a woman, and a furriner.
    Sorry (not sorry) about my cynicism, but these days I look at everything through jaundiced eyes.

    Yes, I hope they return safely, and that this leads the way to a landing to make (eventually) a permanent colony/settlement.
    But I’m still cynical about the whole thing.

  5. It’s been 60 years since Space Race: US vs Russia. That is a pretty long time between sequels. But Space Race 2: China vs US should keep them glued to the seats for a few trillion dollars.

        1. Yeah they would. Public buildings including schools
          were designated fallout shelters. The signs were right
          there on the buildings. The practice drills of hiding
          under your desk with hands covering head…….

          1. The one at my local high school (now an elementary school) took down the signs for the fallout shelter and turned it into a seldom used employee locker room years ago.

          2. When I was a Fire Inspector with my local village, we came across a small space with the CD supplies in the basement of the apartment building we were inspecting.

      2. The Fallout Shelter at my Junior high, was the rifle range in the Library basement 🙂

  6. Why is it significant that Victor Glover is an “African American” Naval Aviator?
    If the goal is a true race-blind society, the place to start is to stop making a big deal out of it anytime a non-Caucasian male does something. Mr Glover’s presence on the mission is no more significant than the presence of any of the other three.

      1. I know it’ll never happen, but I’d love to meet Mr Freeman on the street, shake his hand, and say, “pleased to meet you, Mr Freeman”, then just walk on.

        1. He has a way of making good movies Great. Glory, Shawshank, Unforgiven; these wouldn’t be the same.

          1. Now I can’t unsee that. Well, if Morgan ever picks up a Strat and starts playing “Purple Haze”, we’ll know why. 🎸

  11. All you weirdos,,,, thinking the earth is round!!!! The earth is flat!!!!

    Why else would it be that “people leave town and they never come back”?

  13. WHY, JUST FUCKING WHY?

    Did they run out of ways to waste money for no tangible result?

  14. Oh pleez.
    Anyone can go into space with the right equipment.
    Tie a booster to my ass and I’ll make it too.
    We should be glorifying the equipment and the people who make them, not the jocks that ride in it.
    So easy, even a caveman could do it.
    Now, where is my damn helmet?

  15. C’mon man, how is NASA going to have the time and focus to do that when their main mission is DEI and muslim outreach?

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