NASA astronaut Victor Glover, center, is announced as one of four members of the Artemis 2 crew. Credit: NASA JSC

On April 3, NASA revealed the crew of Artemis 2, the first crewed flight of the Orion spacecraft that is slated for launch as soon as late 2024. Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen will be the first humans to go to the vicinity of the moon since the Apollo 17 landing in 1972, flying around the moon on the 10-day mission.

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Jeff Foust writes about space policy, commercial space, and related topics for SpaceNews. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science...