Meet your Artemis III crew:
MISSION SPECIALIST - NASA astronaut Andre Douglas
โข Artemis II backup crew
โข Apart of NASA's 2021 Astronaut Candidate Class
โข Extensive engineering career at John Hopkins University Aplied Physics Lab
โข Officer in the US Coast Guard
PILOT - ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano
โข 2 Spaceflights, 366 days in orbit, 2x Soyuz flyer
โข 6 Spacewalks, totalling 33 hours and 9 minutes
โข Selected as ESA astronaut in 2009
COMMANDER - NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik
โข 2 Spaceflights, 1x Space Shuttle (Atlantis), 1x Soyuz
โข 5 total Spacewalks, 32 hours and 0 minutes
โข Veteran Test Pilot, U.S Marine Corps colonel
MISSION SPECIALIST - NASA astronaut Frank Rubio
โข 1 Spaceflight, 1x Soyuz flyer
โข Longest American spaceflight ever, 371 days abord the ISS
โข 3 Spacewalks, totalling 21 hours and 24 minutes
โข U.S Army colonel, Former U.S millitary flight surgeon
โข Family Physician
ALT Left to Right as follows: Andre Douglas, Luca Parmitano, Randy Bresnik, Frank Rubio
Northrup Grumman has begun to ship the final 8 segments of the Artemis III Solid Rocket Boosters to the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida!
These boosters will be processed and integrated with the rest of the vehicle on ML-1, where it will head out to LC-39B later this year.