{"id":161522,"date":"2023-04-04T04:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T09:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/nasa-names-woman-black-astronauts-to-artemis-ii-crew-in-lunar-first"},"modified":"2023-04-04T04:22:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T09:22:20","slug":"nasa-names-woman-black-astronauts-to-artemis-ii-crew-in-lunar-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/nasa-names-woman-black-astronauts-to-artemis-ii-crew-in-lunar-first","title":{"rendered":"NASA names woman, Black astronauts to Artemis II crew in lunar first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-names-woman-black-astronauts-to-artemis-ii-crew-in-lunar-first3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>April 3 (Reuters) \u2014 NASA on Monday named the first woman and the first African American ever assigned as astronauts to a lunar mission, introducing them as part of the four-member team chosen to fly on what would be the first crewed voyage around the moon in more than 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>Christina Koch, 44, an engineer who already holds the record for longest continuous spaceflight by a woman and was part of NASA\u2019s first three all-female spacewalks, was named as a mission specialist for the Artemis II lunar flyby expected as early as next year.<\/p>\n<p>She will be joined by Victor Glover, 46, a U.S. Navy aviator and veteran of four spacewalks who NASA has designated as pilot of Artemis II. He will be the first Black astronaut ever to be sent on a lunar mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 3 (Reuters) \u2014 NASA on Monday named the first woman and the first African American ever assigned as astronauts to a lunar mission, introducing them as part of the four-member team chosen to fly on what would be the first crewed voyage around the moon in more than 50 years. Christina Koch, 44, an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}