NASA's selection of four astronauts for the first crewed lunar trip in 50 years

The astronauts who will helm the first crewed moon mission in five decades have been revealed on Monday. They are NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency. Wiseman is a 47-year-old decorated naval aviator and test pilot who was first selected to be a NASA astronaut in 2009. He has completed one prior spaceflight, a 165-day trip to the International Space Station. Hansen is a fighter pilot who was selected by the Canadian Space Agency for astronaut training in 2009.

He recently became the first Canadian to be put in charge of training for a new class of NASA astronauts. He will be the first Canadian ever to travel to deep space. Glover is a 46-year-old naval aviator who returned to Earth from his first spaceflight in 2021 after piloting the second crewed flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft and spending nearly six months aboard the International Space Station. Koch is a veteran of six spacewalks, including the first all-female spacewalk in 2019. She holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, with a total of 328 days in space, and is an electrical engineer who helped develop scientific instruments for multiple NASA mission. She spent a year at the South Pole, an arduous stay that could well prepare her for the intensity of a moon mission.