NASA is about to send humans on a flight around the moon

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Source: WTOP

NASA is about to send humans on a flight around the moon

Michelle Basch | [e-mail]
March 27, 2026, 4:25 PM


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Four astronauts are set to blast off next week on NASA’s first human moon mission in 53 years called Artemis II.

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, will take a 10-day trip around the moon, without landing.

“For the first time since 1972, humans will be far away from the Earth,” Noah Petro, project scientist on the first Artemis Lunar Surface Science Team told WTOP. He’s also a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Artemis II will be the first crewed test of NASA’s huge Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft. It was tested without a crew during the Artemis I mission in 2022.

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Michelle Basch
Michelle Basch is a reporter turned morning anchor at WTOP News.
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[Martin68]

1. In the present chaotic environment with absolutely no accountability I fear for the safety of anybody who participates

in this program.

[Bayard]

2. Hard to believe the funding hasn't been cut for any space programs

[LudwigPastorius]

3. Umm...about that heat shield...

[QueerDuck]

4. What a fucking waste of money. Send robots and probes instead...

... assuming that there's something to be learned from the moon still.