NASA has announced the crew for its next Artemis mission, a docking demonstration involving three spacecraft in Earth’s orbit. The four-man mission will test moon landers from Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin for the first time in space.

Meet the Crew

The crew includes U.S. astronauts Andre Douglas, Frank Rubio, and Randy Bresnik, and Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano. Bresnik, 58, is a test pilot and retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel with over 7,000 hours of flying experience. Rubio, 50, holds the record for the longest continuous spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut at 371 days. Parmitano, 49, is the first European Space Agency astronaut to join an Artemis mission.

Douglas, 40, will be making his first trip to space. He was selected to join NASA’s astronaut corps in 2021 and has degrees in various areas of engineering, including three master’s degrees and a doctorate in systems engineering from George Washington University.

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