HOUSTON, Tx — After evaluating more than 8,000 applications, NASA announced that it will unveil its 2025 class of astronaut candidates for the Artemis II moon mission during a ceremony on Monday.

According to NASA’s website, the selected candidates will undergo nearly two years of training before they become flight-eligible astronauts for agency missions to low Earth orbit, the Moon, and ultimately, Mars.

NASA is also expecting to host a series of briefings on the upcoming Artemis II mission, slated for no later than April 2026. The test flight, a launch of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft, will send NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on an approximately 10-day mis

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