These Are the 4 Artemis II Astronauts Leading the Historic Return to the Moon

The Artemis II mission crew includes the first woman, the first Black person, and the first non-American astronaut to travel ...

NC State alum Christina Koch making history as part of Artemis II crew

NASA officially selected Koch to become an astronaut in 2013. In 2019, she spent 328 consecutive days in space — the longest ...

With Artemis II, astronaut duo sees out-of-this-world female friendship

NASA astronaut friends Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, who performed the first all-female spacewalk, are breaking records ...

NASA once touted the diversity of Artemis II's astronauts. Now? Not so much

The Artemis II mission crew contains four people -- including one woman and one Black man, both of whom will be the first on a lunar mission. But NASA hasn't been talking about these milestones much.