NASA has named the first female and African-American astronauts ever assigned to a lunar mission. NASA announced the first female and African-American astronauts ever assigned to a lunar mission NASA astronauts selected for the Artemis II mission had participated in earlier International Space Station expeditions Artemis II will be the first crewed flight, but not the first lunar landing On Monday, NASA revealed the identities of the four astronauts who will be the first women and African Americans to be assigned to a lunar mission.
Three of the astronauts chosen to fly to the moon next year aboard Artemis II are former military pilots, and two were Navy aviators who have decades of collective flying experience.
NASA astronaut Christina Koch is set to become the first woman to go around the moon when NASA s Artemis II mission takes off next year. Koch will fly on Artemis II with three other astronauts. Here s all you need to know about Christina Koch