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NASA announces four-member team of astronauts for first crewed voyage around moon in fifty years

<span style="color: #222222;">NASA has announced a team of four astronauts who will fly around the Moon next year for a 10-day mission. The team was announced during an event in Houston, Texas, that was streamed live yesterday.<br />''<br />''The team has three American and one Canadian astronaut, including a woman and an African American ever assigned as astronauts to a lunar mission.<br />''<br />''Reid Wiseman be the commander while Victor Glover will pilot the mission, Christina Koch and Canada's Jeremy Hansen will serve as mission specialists.<br />''<br />''Ms Koch and Mr Glover will set history as the first woman and first black person, to go to the vicinity of the Moon. Mr Hansen will be the first non-American to fly to the Moon.</span><br />

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