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NASA unveils Artemis II crew including first woman, person of color to orbit moon

By A.L. Lee & Simon Druker

April 3 (UPI) — NASA officials Monday revealed the four names that will make up a team astronauts from the United States and Canada that will journey around the moon next year as part of the first crewed flight of the Artemis mission.

The four include a woman and a person of color, NASA and the Canadian Space Agency confirmed during the joint announcement at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

Cpt. G. Reid Wiseman is a U.S. Navy pilot who previously served as Flight Engineer aboard the International Space Station will command the Artemis II mission. Wiseman, from Baltimore, Md., carried out the 165-day mission at the ISS in 2014. He spent nearly 13 hours as lead spacewalker on the mission.

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