Cal Poly Graduate Piloting NASA’s First Lunar Mission in Half a Century

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KEYT) - A graduate of Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo is slated to circle the moon with three other crew members over the next ten days.

This is NASA’s first lunar mission in fifty years, and it’s intended as a precursor to more.

NASA will launch the Artemis II no earlier than Wednesday, April 1st at about 6:30 in the morning from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The crew: Commander Reid Wiseman from Baltimore Maryland, Mission Specialists Christina Koch from Grand Rapids Michigan, and Jeremy Hansen from Ontario Canada, and pilot: Victor Glover, graduate of Cal Poly class of 1999, navy captain.

The mission’s purpose: to make sure current spacecraft can sustain astronauts for new missions to the moon planned for the near future.

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