The team includes one woman and three men and was introduced during a televised ceremony from Houston, home to the nation’s astronauts as well as Mission Control. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson called the four astronauts “humanity’s crew.”
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The three Americans and one Canadian will be the first crew to fly NASA’s Orion capsule, launching atop a Space Launch System rocket from Kennedy Space Center no earlier than late 2024. However, they will not land or even go into lunar orbit. Instead, they will fly around the moon and head straight back to Earth. This mission will be a prelude to a lunar landing by two others a year later.
