A Canadian.
The very first to fly around the Moon.
Jeremy Hansen
Astronaut, Canadian Space Agency
Three Americans.
Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover
NASA astronauts
They will launch from Florida on the first crewed test flight of the Artemis program.
Launch of the Artemis I uncrewed mission
November 16, 2022
The mission’s main goals are to:
evaluate SLS and Orion systems with crew,
in deep space
evaluate how Orion flies with astronauts
at the controls
perform a flyby around the Moon
They will fly thousands of kilometres
beyond the Moon,
take photographs of the surface
and will have a breathtaking view of our planet
that only 24 humans got to see before them.
In total, they will travel over 1,100,000 kilometres in nearly 10 days.
They will come home at 32 times
the speed of sound
before they splash down in the Pacific.
Canada is on its way to the Moon.