AFTER more than two years of intensive training are finally ready to fly in space, in the hope of conquering the Moon and maybe even Mars, too: the 13 young graduates as new astronauts at the Johnson Space Center of Nasa in Houston. There are six women in the class, consisting of 11 candidates for the u.s. space Agency, and two canadian (Csa). “Concentration, commitment and dedication out of the ordinary” distinguish the new 13 levers, young people “ready to lead humanity into the unknown, going where no one has ever been,” says Bridenstine, citing not only the Moon but also Mars.

they have renamed as the class of ’turtles’ The turtles’), formed by seven men and six women. There are 11 candidates Nasa, Kayla Barron, Zena Cardman, Raja Chari, Matthew Dominick, Bob Hines, Warren Hoburg, Jonny Kim, Jasmin Moghbeli, Loral O’hara, Francisco Rubio, Jessica Watkins) and two ones of the canadian space Agency (Joshua Kutryk and Jennifer Sidey-Gibbons). Their background is varied, to lord it are the engineers, but there are also doctors, surgeons, biologists, and geologists, to be understood as the exploration of space requires an ever more multi-disciplinary. This is the first class of astronauts that graduated under the program Artemis, sponsored by the Nasa to return humans to the Moon along with the first woman.

Selected in 2017 after a very strict selection (only Nasa has received more than 18,000 requests for participation), the new astronauts have completed the training by studying the extra-vehicular activity, robotics, the systems of the international space Station (Iss) and Russian.

Now, you can finally, focusing on the chest the brooch of the astronauts, a tangible sign of their suitability to be selected to fly into space and take part “in any kind of mission in low orbit on the space Station, the Moon, Mars or any other destination,” says Bridenstine. “Take a moment to be proud of yourself and the way you made: we are proud of you, the destination is certainly worth the wait,” says the astronaut Jessica Meir in his message of greeting from the Space Station.

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