Astronaut class announced by NASA ahead of Moon mission

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August 21, 2025
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Astronaut class announced by NASA ahead of Moon mission

NASA has announced it will reveal its newest class of astronaut, before providing briefings for the Artemis II crewed test flights around the Moon. The activities will take place at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

The astronaut selection event will stream live on NASA+, Netflix, Amazon Prime, NASA’s YouTube channel, and the agency’s X account. The selected candidates will undergo nearly two years of training before they graduate as flight-eligible astronauts for agency missions to low Earth orbit, the Moon, and ultimately, Mars.

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Afterwards, NASA will host a series of media briefings on 23^rd and 24^th September to preview the upcoming Artemis II mission, planned to launch no later than April 2026. The test flight will be a launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft which will send astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on an approximately 10-day mission around the moon.

Artemis II will confirm the systems and hardware needed for human deep space exploration. The mission will be the first crewed flight under NASA’s Artemis campaign and “is another step toward new U.S.-crewed missions on the Moon’s surface that will help the agency prepare to send American astronauts to Mars,” the agency said.

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