NASA names Artemis III crew for 2027 docking tests (opens in new tab)

NASA on June 9 named Randy Bresnik as commander, European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano as pilot, and Andre Douglas and Frank Rubio as mission specialists for Artemis III. NASA assigned astronaut Bob Hines as a backup crew member. The announcement at Johnson Space Center in Houston set the crew for a 2027 test flight that will send Orion to low Earth orbit rather than to the Moon. NASA said the mission will launch Orion on the Space Launch System from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ...