NASA and the Canadian Space Agency named the four astronauts that will climb aboard the Orion spacecraft to be launched atop the Space Launch System rocket from Kennedy Space Center as early as November 2024.
Commanding the mission will be Reid Wiseman, the former head of NASA’s astronaut office who stepped down to be eligible to fly on missions again. He will be joined by NASA astronaut Victor Glover, who will act as pilot, NASA astronaut and mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen.
Wiseman, 47, was born in Baltimore. He was chosen as part of the 2009 class of astronaut candidates, and flew on a 165-day mission to the ISS during Expedition 41 in 2014. Glover, 46, who was born in Pomona, California was also part of the 2013 astronaut class. He was pilot of the first operational flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon launching from Kennedy Space Center on the Crew-1 mission in November 2020 for a 168-day trip to the ISS. He goes by the nickname Ike, given by fellow astronauts as an acronym for “I Know Everything.”A model of the Orion capsule and the service module is displayed at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Friday, Nov.
NASA will live stream the announcement at 11 a.m. on NASA TV and its social media channels from NASA Johnson Space Center’s Ellington Field in Houston.
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