{"id":567592,"date":"2026-03-29T00:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/567592\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T00:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:31:07","slug":"who-are-the-artemis-ii-astronauts-meet-crew-for-nasa-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/567592\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are the Artemis II astronauts? Meet crew for NASA mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASA’s Artemis II lunar mission<\/a> features four astronauts who could make history as early as April 1<\/a> for the first crewed Moon flyby in more than 50 years.<\/p>\n

Who are the brave astronauts who will embark on this huge mission?<\/p>\n

The four-person Artemis II crew consists<\/a> of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA\u2019s (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen.<\/p>\n

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Wiseman will serve as the Artemis II commander, Glover will serve as the pilot and Koch and Hansen will serve as the mission specialists. Each astronaut’s role is absolutely vital for the Artemis II mission’s potential success.<\/p>\n

What is the Artemis II mission?<\/p>\n

Check out our explainer on this historic NASA space expedition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on For The Win: Who are the Artemis II astronauts? Meet crew for NASA mission<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA’s Artemis II lunar mission features four astronauts who could make history as early as April 1 for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33143,49,48,52877,106164,105501,45624,218556,307,28137,106165,66,59129],"class_list":["post-567592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-astronauts","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-space-agency","tag-christina-koch","tag-jeremy-hansen","tag-lunar-mission","tag-mission-specialists","tag-nasa","tag-nasa-astronauts","tag-reid-wiseman","tag-science","tag-victor-glover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}