astronaut

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, has been in the news a lot lately, outlining its strategic objectives and preparing to fly astronauts to the moon and back in just a few days.

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The astronauts will require a second vehicle to descend to the moon's surface, a lunar lander that remains under development by rival space companies owned by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

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Four astronauts -- three Americans and one Canadian -- will take flight in this major mission.

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The four astronauts selected for the Artemis 2 Moon mission will be the first to travel there in more than five decades.

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The Gateway orbital lunar station was meant to serve both as a point of transfer for astronauts headed to the Moon as well as a platform for research.

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