Artemis 2: Who?

On board are four astronauts: Reid Wiseman (Commander), Victor Glover (Pilot), Christina Koch (Mission Specialist), and Jeremy Hansen (Mission Specialist). 

Reid Wiseman is originally from Baltimore and has been a NASA astronaut since 2009. As commander of the spacecraft, he focuses on the overall success of the mission, crew safety, spacecraft integrity, launching, and leading the crew as a whole. Wiseman has a bachelor’s degree from RIT and a Master’s from John Hopkins in Systems Engineering. He has flown one previous mission, the International Station on expedition 41. 

Victor Glover has been a NASA astronaut since 2013 and has flown one previous mission, Expedition 64. Glover is from California and holds a Bachelor’s of Science in General Engineering and two Master of Science degrees in Flight Test Engineering and Systems Engineering, and one Master of Military Operational Art and Science.

Christina Koch has been an astronaut since 2013, and has since set the record for the longest since single spaceflight by a woman (she was in space for 328 days!). Koch attended North Carolina State University, earning two Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics along with a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.

Jeremy Hansen will be the first Canadian to ever go to the moon, with a background in being a fighter pilot. Hansen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in space science and a Master of Science in Physics, from the Royal Military College Saint-Jean in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec.