We asked neiltyson about NASA's Artemis program and how excited he was about finally returning to the moon. His response? 'It's about damn time!' 🚀🌕 Read more:
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen and NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Christina Koch greet the crowd at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center on Monday, April 3, 2023.NASA has officially announced the crew for the Artemis 2 mission.
Since then, humankind hasn't taken a lunar step. While other uncrewed missions have gone to and surveyed the moon, it won't be untilconsisting of Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen will circle the moon. This will be the first time people return to the moon in over 50 years.
"When President Kennedy said, let's put a man on the moon and return him safely to earth, he said that in 1962," says Tyson. "We didn't yet have a rocket that was capable of holding humans that didn't blow up on the launch […]. In other words, he made that announcement before we had safe passage to space for humans. Seven years later, we're walking on the moon."
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