Christina Koch, a graduate of N.C. State University who grew up in Jacksonville, North Carolina, will be one of four astronauts to fly around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.
Koch will join American astronauts Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen on the Artemis II mission, NASA announced Monday from the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The mission is estimated to take off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in late 2024.
