Last month, the eleven students of NASA’s newest astronaut class had graduated, five of whom are women – and one of them will likely be the first woman on the Moon!
“As astronauts, they’ll help develop spacecraft [and] support the teams currently in space,” says NASA in a graduation announcement. “And ultimately join the ranks of only about 500 people who have had the honor of going into space.”
The women were selected in 2017 from a record number of 18,000 applicants. The astronauts are part of the first class from NASA’s new Artemis program, which is meant to prepare for human missions to Mars, and which also plans to land the first woman – and next man – on the Moon by 2024.
