Meet the astronauts on NASA's Artemis II moon mission

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen could launch on a trip around the moon as early as Feb. 8, traveling farther from Earth than humanity has ever gone before.

In just over a week, four astronauts could launch toward the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.

The crew, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen are set to fly on NASA’s Artemis II mission, a 10-day journey that will take them swinging around the moon. Their path through space will take the group farther from Earth than humanity has ever gone, surpassing the Apollo 13 record of 248,655 miles set in 1970.

The group will not land on the moon’s surface, but the flight is meant to kick-start a new era of lunar exploration, paving the way for a moon landing in the coming years. It will be the first time that NASA’s next-generation Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule carry human passengers.

If that’s cause for any trepidation, the astronauts haven’t let it show.

“There is nothing left on my to-do list. I’m ready to go,” Wiseman said Wednesday in a post on X.