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Artemis II will carry the first astronauts in an Orion spacecraft as it travels around the moon.

They will be the first to fly NASA's Orion capsule, launching atop a Space Launch System rocket from Kennedy Space Center no earlier than late 2024.

NASA unveiled the crew on Monday for its first human mission to the Moon in more than 50 years –- including the first woman and Black man to participate in a lunar flight. This is the first mission since the historic Apollo missions ended in 1972. Artemis II is scheduled to take place in November 2024. It will test NASA's powerful Space Launch System rocket as well as the life-support systems aboard the Orion. The three NASA astronauts -- Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch -- named to Artemis II.

SpaceX-NASA's Crew-1 astronauts return after Space Station Mission - What went down NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission launched November 15, 2020, on a Falcon 9 rocket from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Image Source: Twitter/NASA) Updated: May 2, 2021, 07:06 PM IST NASA's Space X Crew-1 astronauts truly deserve a big hand as after surviving 167 days in space, the longest duration mission for a U.S. spacecraft since the final Skylab mission in 1974, Dragon and the Crew-1 astronauts returned safely to Earth on Sunday morning! SpaceX's Crew Dragon, carryi...