The four crew members are all men, three of whom are American and one who is Italian: commander Randy Bresnik, pilot Luca Parmitano, mission specialist Andre Douglas, and mission specialist Frank Rubio. The backup crew member, Bob Hines, is also American.
“While we recognize there are questions about how Blue Origin’s recent anomaly impacts our plans, setbacks are a learning opportunity,” Jeremy Parsons, the Acting Assistant Deputy Associate Administrator for the Moon to Mars Program Office at NASA, said during Tuesday’s event. “We are confident that New Glenn will be ready for Artemis III, together with Blue Origin.”
Bresnik will be the commander of the Artemis III mission. Bresnik, a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel, was selected as an astronaut in 2004, according to NASA. He was previously the commander of the International Space Station for Expedition 53 in 2017. Over the course of his career, he has logged more than 7,000 hours in nearly a hundred types of aircrafts, rotorcrafts, and gliders, as well as 3,600 hours in spacecrafts.
Luca Parmitano
Parmitano, a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, will be the pilot of the Artemis III mission. Parmitano, who was born in Italy, was selected as an ESA astronaut in 2009, according to ESA. He was a colonel in the Italian Air Force and, over the course of his career, he has accumulated more than 2,000 hours of flying and has operated more than 40 kinds of aircrafts.
“The European Space Agency is like a launch tower connecting these two worlds, building bridges,” he continued. “The rocket, figuratively and literally, is NASA. I am grateful that NASA has allowed me to be part of this incredible group of people, of this crew, and for letting me fly.”
Douglas was a backup crew member for the Artemis II test flight, and trained alongside the four astronauts who embarked on that mission. The Artemis III mission will be Douglas’ first space flight.
Frank Rubio
Rubio will be the other mission specialist on the Artemis III mission. Rubio, who is a family medicine physician and a U.S. Army colonel, was chosen by NASA to be part of the 2017 astronaut candidate class and reported for duty that year, according to the space agency. Rubio broke the record for the longest continuous spaceflight by an American astronaut, after launching for a mission on Sept. 21, 2022 and then returning to Earth on Sept. 27, 2023—a duration of 371 days. His trip back to Earth was delayed by six months as a result of a coolant leak on the spacecraft that he was initially meant to return in.
Hines was named as a backup crew member to the Artemis III mission, and will train alongside Bresnik, Rubio, Douglas, and Parmitano. He was chosen by NASA to be part of the 2017 astronaut candidate class, according to the space agency. He served in the U.S. Air Force for more than two decades. He was previously the pilot on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station, which ended in October 2022.
What will the Artemis III moon mission do?
The mission will not involve the crew landing on the moon; rather, “this mission is deliberately designed to take calculated risk so that future crews will be safer and ultimately successful when we put boots on the lunar surface,” Parsons said. NASA has said that it plans to bring humans back to the moon’s surface in 2028 with the Artemis IV and V missions.
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