Alma Paola Wong

🌕👩‍🚀 Un instante que ya forma parte de la historia. Christina Koch se enfunda el traje ACES antes de convertirse en la primera mujer en rodear la Luna.

The Artemis II crew is boarding Orion.  Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy are taking their seats atop the most powerful manned rocket ever built. They have trained for years for this moment, and now they are preparing to execute a mission that will take us back around the Moon and begin the next chapter of human space exploration.

One last message before the launch of Artemis II...

Standing on the shoulders of giants. As the Artemis II crew prepares for launch no earlier than April 1, they recently took a moment to pay homage to the Apollo 10 crew and the groundwork they laid for the Artemis II Moon mission.

For the first time in history, a woman is venturing to the Moon. NASA astronaut Christina Koch is set to make that milestone on NASA's Artemis II mission — a daring ~10-day journey that will send four astronauts on a voyage around the Moon and farther from Earth than any woman has ever traveled before. Serving as mission specialist aboard the Orion spacecraft, Koch will help test critical life support, navigation, and communication systems as the crew travels hundreds of thousands of miles into deep space. She already holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman — 328 days aboard the International Space Station — and in 2019, she took part in the first all-female spacewalk. Since the Apollo era, nearly 90% of astronauts have been men. Artemis II represents not only a leap in technology, but a profound shift in who gets to explore the cosmos. “If there’s something to celebrate, it’s that we are at a time when anyone who has a dream gets to work equally hard to achieve that dream,” Koch said. “If we’re not going for all and by all, we’re not truly answering humanity’s call to explore.”