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An eastern North Carolina engineer and astronaut will be the first woman in deep space.

On Monday, Hansen was named as part of the four-person crew for NASA’s Artemis II mission, the program’s first crewed mission to travel to the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.

Five-time Space Camp alumna Christina Hammock Koch was one of four astronauts named today as the first crew to return to the moon.

And a canadian. reid weissmann, u.s. navy captain and commander. victor glover, the first black astronaut to m make a long-duration space flight. christina cook, a member of the first three all-female spacewalks, and canadian jeremy hansen, the only space working aboard. >> our focus is 100% of being successful. >> reporter: the capsule will reach the moon in four days for a lunar flyby. this crew could push deeper into space and any humans ever before finishing their attending mission. whats cr...

NASA announced the four Artemis 2 astronauts—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen and Christina Koch. Here is what you need to know about them.

The 47-year-old mission specialist will be one of four astronauts in the 10-day mission set to launch in November 2024, according to NASA and the Canadian Space Agency.

On Monday, Hansen was named as part of the four-person crew for NASA’s Artemis II mission, the program’s first crewed mission to travel to the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.

NASA has selected four crew members to travel around the moon in its Artemis II mission, planned for late 2024: Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen

Christina Koch, who grew up in Jacksonville, North Carolina, and graduated from N.C. State University, will be part of the first crew of astronauts to travel around the moon in

A severe geomagnetic storm created auroras that were visible as far south as Arizona in the U.S.