The personal items the Artemis II crew are taking to the Moon

The personal items the Artemis II crew are taking to the Moon 13 minutes ago Share Save Pallab Ghosh , Science correspondent , Alison Francis , Senior science journalist and Kevin Church Share Save NASA The Artemis II crew celebrate with fans while watching a university basketball final in a packed arena in Houston, Texas Four astronauts are about to become the most closely watched crew since Apollo. They will be the first to orbit the moon for more than 50 years, testing the path back for the next generation. The crew includes three Nasa astronauts - Commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch - along with Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency. Not only are they accomplished pilots, engineers and scientists, they are also spouses and parents balancing a heroic adventure against the risks they and their loved ones will face. Here's what we know about them. Reid Wiseman - Commander NASA/BBC News Reid Wiseman is a US Navy test pilot turned astronaut, who spent six months on the International Space Station in 2014 as a flight engineer on Expedition 40. Wiseman says he has a lifelong love of flying, but on the ground he's afraid of heights. He will command Artemis II in what is the second flight of the Orion spacecraft, and the first to carry people around the Moon in more than 50 years. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Wiseman lost his wife to cancer in 2020 and has raised their two teenage daughters alone. …