NASA to name Artemis 2 crew next week, the first moon astronauts in 50 years

artist's impression of an astronaut with the moon behind. the astronaut is spacesuited and the reflection of their helmet shows the gloved hands holding a camera, reflected in the helmet visor. far behind is the sun peeking behind the moon, and a half-full earth.

We're a week away from a once-in-a-generation announcement: The names of the first moonbound astronauts in decades.

On April 3, NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) will together showcase the three Americans and one Canadian that will go to the moon on Artemis 2, which will launch no sooner than November 2024. The quartet will loop around the moon during the first-ever human lunar mission since the landing of Apollo 17 in December 1972.