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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration selected 18 astronauts to form the Artemis Team, a group of space travelers who will eventually conduct missions on and around the moon as part of the agency s Artemis program.
The astronauts were announced Wednesday by Vice President Mike Pence at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
“I give you the heroes who will carry us to the moon and beyond the Artemis Generation,” Pence said. “It is amazing to think that the next man and first woman on the moon are among the names that we just read. The Artemis Team astronauts are the future of American space exploration and that future is bright.