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NASA names crew for first human moon mission since Apollo

The four are scheduled to fly past the moon in 2024 before returning to Earth

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Updated April 3, 2023 at 2:52 p.m. EDT|Published April 3, 2023 at 11:26 a.m. EDT
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on April 3 named four crew members of the Artemis II mission to circle the moon. (Video: NASA, Photo: The Washington Post/NASA)
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HOUSTON — For the first time since the Apollo era, NASA on Monday named a crew of astronauts for a lunar expedition.

The astronauts will fly around the moon in a mission that would precede the first human landing there since 1972.

In an event here, NASA officials said astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman will be joined by Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen on the Artemis II mission, which is scheduled to launch late next year.