Early Monday afternoon, NASA announced the four astronauts who will fly around the moon for the first time since the end of the Apollo program 51-years ago.
The Artemis II team will be made up of three Americans — Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Coke, and Reid Wiseman — and one Canadian, Jeremy Hansen.
Artemis II is scheduled to send the four astronauts into space in 2024 for a lunar flyby before returning to Earth.
In addition to setting up a permanent base camp on the moon, the Artemis program aims to be the gateway to eventual human missions to Mars.
