A Maryland astronaut will blast off into space and fly around the moon. NASA announced the news Monday. This is a step toward NASA’s goal of returning to the lunar surface.
The crew for this Artemis II mission will be:
- Commander Reid Wiseman of Baltimore
- Pilot Victor Glover of Pomona, California
- Mission Specialist 1 Christina Hammock Koch, a native of Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Mission Specialist 2 Jeremy Hansen of London, Ontario, Canada
Wiseman is from Baltimore. He graduated from Dulaney High School in Timonium in 1993.
In 1997, Wiseman earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He also served in the Reserve Officersâ Training Corps, also known as the ROTC, while in college.
Wiseman was then commissioned into the Navy after graduation and reported to Pensacola, Florida for flight training. He became a Naval Aviator in 1999.
Wiseman served around the country, spending a portion of his service at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in southern Maryland. He later served as a strike operations officer and was deployed around South America.
The Navy veteran also earned a Master of Science degree in systems engineering from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 2006. Two years later, he later completed a Certificate of Space Systems at the US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
NASA selected Wiseman to join its 20th astronaut class in 2009. He completed training in 2011.
Wiseman took his first and only trip to space in 2014, completing a 165-day mission aboard the International Space Station. He and his crewmates conducted more than 300 experiments on human physiology, medicine, physical science, Earth science and astrophysics.
Wiseman also tallied nearly 13 hours of spacewalks during two trips outside the station.
