NASA selects crew for moon fly-by mission

Описание: (3 Apr 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: MUST CREDIT NASA
NASA - MUST CREDIT NASA
Houston, Texas - 3 April 2023
1. Audience applauding for NASA astronauts
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator:
"This is their crew. This is our crew. This is humanity's crew."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator:
"She's an engineer who got her start at Goddard and is no stranger to breaking records, logging the longest continuous space flight ever by a woman. Your mission specialist Christina Hammock Koch."
4. Various of Koch taking the stage
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator:
"He's a master of science in physics, an F-18 pilot and a Canadian astronaut. Your mission specialist Jeremy Hansen."
6. Various of Hansen taking the stage
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator:
"He's a naval aviator and test pilot that's flown over 40 different aircraft. Most recently, the first operational commercial crew mission. Your Artemis II pilot Victor Glover.
8. Various of Glover taking the stage
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator:
"He's a decorated naval aviator, test pilot and leader of the highest character. Your Artemis II commander, Reid Wiseman."
10. Various of Glover taking the stage
11. Wide of all four astronauts on stage

STORYLINE:
NASA on Monday named the four astronauts who will fly to the moon by the end of next year, including one woman and three men.

The four were introduced during a televised ceremony from Houston, home to the nation’s astronauts as well as Mission Control.

“This is humanity’s crew,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.

The three Americans and one Canadian 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. They will not land or even go into lunar orbit, but rather fly around the moon and head straight back to Earth, a prelude to a lunar landing by two others a year later.

The mission’s commander, Reid Wiseman, will be joined by Victor Glover, an African American naval aviator; Christina Koch, who holds the world record for the longest spaceflight by a woman; and Canada’s Jeremy Hansen. All are space veterans expect Hansen.

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