Crew

The Artemis II astronauts

Four crew members flew NASA’s first crewed Artemis mission: three from NASA and one from the Canadian Space Agency. Bios below summarize public NASA/CSA profiles.

Official sources

Primary crew pages: nasa.gov/feature/our-artemis-crew and Artemis II astronauts gallery.

Group portrait credit: NASA / Josh Valcarcel.

Official Artemis II crew portrait: Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Jeremy Hansen — Official Artemis II crew portrait (left to right per NASA caption: Christina Hammock Koch, Reid Wiseman (seated), Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen). NASA / Josh Valcarcel

Commander

Reid Wiseman

NASA

In plain words

He leads the crew and is responsible for the mission overall.

Engineer, U.S. Navy veteran, and Baltimore native. Selected as a NASA astronaut in 2009. Flew as Flight Engineer on Expedition 40/41 (2014), including spacewalks and hundreds of experiments. Later served as Chief of the Astronaut Office. Commanded Artemis II — NASA’s first crewed Artemis flight.

Portrait: NASA / Robert Markowitz

Pilot

Victor Glover

NASA

In plain words

He helps fly Orion and operates key spacecraft systems.

Test pilot and engineer. Pilot and second-in-command on SpaceX Crew-1, then lived and worked aboard the ISS. As Artemis II pilot he helped operate Orion systems in deep space — and became the first Black astronaut to fly around the Moon.

Portrait: NASA / Robert Markowitz

Mission Specialist

Christina Hammock Koch

NASA

In plain words

She helps run science work and systems checklists inside Orion.

Engineer and experienced ISS astronaut. Held the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman (328 days) and took part in the first all-female spacewalk. On Artemis II she served as mission specialist and became the first woman to fly around the Moon.

Portrait: NASA / Robert Markowitz

Mission Specialist

Jeremy Hansen

CSA (Canadian Space Agency)

In plain words

Canada’s astronaut on the crew — the first Canadian to fly around the Moon.

Former fighter pilot and Royal Canadian Air Force member. Selected as a CSA astronaut in 2009; worked as CAPCOM in Houston and led a NASA astronaut class. Artemis II was his first spaceflight and made him the first Canadian — and first non-American — to take part in a lunar mission (CSA).

Portrait: NASA / Riley McClenaghan

Artemis II crew standing in front of their Orion crew module at Kennedy Space Center — Artemis II crew with their Orion crew module at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (Aug. 8, 2023). From left: Hansen, Glover, Wiseman, Koch. NASA / Kim Shiflett