Technology/Science
NASA Picks Astronauts for New Moon Missions By Paul Rincon
announced by US VicePresident Mike Pence at an event in Florida. He said: "My fellow Americans, I give you the heroes of the future who will carry us back to the Moon and beyond." Speaking at the eighth National Space Council meeting at Kennedy Space Jessica Watkins is a member of the most recent astronaut class, selected for Center, NASA training in 2017. She is a NASA astronaut, geologist, aquanaut and former administrator international rugby player. Born: May 14, 1988 (age 32) in Gaithersburg, MD; Jim Bridenstine Education: University of California, Los Angeles · Stanford University said: "This is the first cadre of our Artemis NASA HAS ANNOUNCED 18 ASTRONAUTS astronauts. I want to be clear, there's going to be who will travel to the Moon under the agency's more." The US space agency plans to send a man and Artemis programme. woman to the Moon's south pole in 2024 for the They include individuals who have already travelled to the International Space Station, first crewed landing since Apollo 17 in 1972. But this will be followed by further flights by as well as new recruits who have never flown in astronauts travelling in a spacecraft called Orion, space. The group includes the next man and first woman which will be launched by a huge rocket called the Space Launch System (SLS). who will walk on the lunar surface in 2024. Bridenstine has said that NASA wants to establish The cadre of nine women and nine men were 66
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