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Astronaut Christina Koch, who graduated from North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics and NC State, will be the first woman to fly to the moon
This crew of four will be the first people to leave low-Earth orbit in over 50 years.
Cutback in oil production. oil prices jumpedhan 6% after saudi arabia, the united arab emirates, and kuwait said they will cut supplies by more than 1 million barrels a day. now to four astronauts who nasa says have the right stuff. the space agency named one woman and three men to the crew for the first mission to the moon and more than half a century. cbs's mark strassmann reports is the first time a woman and a black astronaut have been named to a lunar crew. >> ladies and gentlemen, your artemis 2 crew. >> reporter: nasa's deep space hopes rocket with his crew. >> to the moon, to mars, and...
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. what's critical, this flight will be the first test of orion's complete life-support systems. nasa envisions...
The four-person crew will strap into the Orion capsule in 2024 as part of the space agency's ongoing lunar program.