Dr. Susan Kelleher
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Full title today.
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Yes, Artemis 3.
And the big news this week is that NASA have named the astronauts that are going to take part in this.
And
I suppose Artemis III was originally going to be one thing and it's changed into another thing, but the astronauts still have to be selected.
And we'll go into details on the changes between the programmes in a minute.
But the main people who've been chosen are
It's an all-male crew, similar to the last one.
And they include in command Randy Bresnik, who is, I mean, I have to say, all of these people are amazing, right?
I mean, astronauts are just phenomenal.
So Randy Bresnik is a marine colonel.
He's...
a former commander of the ISS, so he's well used to going up to space, and he's got 7,000 plus hours of flying.
Also, so interestingly, he's one of only two astronauts ever to have a child born when he was up in space, so he missed that moment.
The pilot is Luca Parminato, is an Italian fighter pilot out of ESA.
He's already spent over a year in space, including time on a spacewalk in 2013.
I was researching this.
This is phenomenal.
Where he nearly drowned when he was on a spacewalk up in space because water started filling up