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muriel_volestrangler

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Wed Sep 24, 2025, 04:59 PM Wednesday

Meet the history-making astronauts headed for the Moon [View all]

The commander of Nasa's next mission to the Moon said that he and his crew would "see things that no human has ever seen".

Reid Wiseman told a news conference that it was likely that his spacecraft would fly over large areas of the Moon that previous Apollo missions had never mapped.

Yesterday, Nasa announced it hoped it would be able to launch the first crewed Moon mission in 50 years as early as February 2026.
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"Peace and hope for all humankind, that is what we really want. We are bringing together the world, and when you squeeze it all down, it will create magic. So we're going to fly around the Moon in the spacecraft 'Integrity'.









https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg0kv8rq0xo

I am genuinely surprised they kept a woman, a Canadian, and a Black man, on the mission. I thought Trump's placeman was going to go all "no woke!!!" on it. Good for NASA sticking up for the best crew they have.
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