Two Former Navy Fighter Pilots Lead NASA’s Artemis II Mission

Two former U.S. Navy fighter pilots are aboard the first crewed orbit around the moon in more than 50 years after launching on Wednesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on the Artemis II mission. Retired Capt. Reid Wiseman is the commander of the Artemis II mission, while Capt. Victor Glover Jr. is the pilot. Wiseman and Glover are among two other astronauts – Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, a Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot, and NASA flight engineer Christina Koch – who launched Wednesday from the NASA facility for a 10-day mission from the Earth to the moon. It will