NASA has announced that 18 astronauts, 9 men and 9 women, will begin training for the Artemis program, America's planned return to the moon.
The 18 astronauts reflect diversity in demographics and backgrounds, including test pilots, systems engineers, flight surgeons and a submariner with a degree in nuclear engineering. The last choice is particularly interesting, as any manned Mars mission is probably going to involve a ship equipped with a small nuclear reactor for power...
Here's the full list with little blurbs about each one. Obviously we aren't going to be talking mission assignments for a while, but there's a good chance one of these people will be the next American...and one of them the first woman and/or the first Black person to set foot on the moon.
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