A black woman and a black man will travel to the Moon for the first time in history

By 03/04/2023 Portal

De izquierda a derecha, los estadounidenses Christina Koch, Reid Wiseman (sentado) y Victor Glover; y el canadiense Jeremy Hansen.

A woman and three men will be the first astronauts to travel to the Moon in more than 50 years. The space agencies of the United States and Canada today presented the four astronauts of the mission Artemis 2, the first manned test of the program with which Western space powers want to take humans to our satellite and Mars. The four occupants of the brand new Orion capsule, three Americans and one Canadian, were presented today at a massive event at the Johnson Space Center in Houston (USA) at five in the afternoon, Spanish peninsular time. Those chosen are the Americans Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman and the Canadian Jeremy Hansen. In total, 24 white men have orbited or walked on the Moon in all of history; It is the first time, therefore, that a woman and a black man will do it. The last mission was that of Apollo 17, 53 years ago.

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