00:00The Artemis II lunar mission makes history with a remarkably diverse crew, including the first woman, the first black astronaut,
00:07and Canadian ever to fly to the vicinity of the moon.
00:10All three NASA astronauts are veterans of Earth-orbit science expeditions to the International Space Station.
00:15Mission Commander Reed Wiseman logged 165 days aboard the International Space Station during a 2014 mission, flying to the orbiting
00:22platform aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
00:24Pilot Victor Grover spent 168 days in orbit beginning in 2020 as pilot of NASA's Crew-1 flight, the first
00:31full-fledged ISS mission using SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule to carry astronauts to the space station.
00:37Mission Specialist Christina Koch set a record in 2019 for the longest continuous spaceflight by a woman.
00:42She was also part of NASA's first three all-female spacewalks.
00:46Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is the first Canadian and first non-US citizen sent on a lunar mission.
00:51This is his first spaceflight.
00:53The four astronauts cruised through a six-hour flyby of the shadowed far side of the moon that revealed a
00:58lunar surface under cosmic bombardment.
01:00This marks the world's first voyage to the vicinity of the moon since NASA's Apollo missions more than half a
01:05century ago.
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