The astronauts Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover, who participated in the Artemis II mission around the Moon, will stop doing spaceflights starting this month. Both will serve as emeritus astronauts at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
The Artemis II mission was the first crewed mission of the Artemis program, taking the astronauts to an orbit around the Moon. This was a historic mission that marked humanity's return to crewed spaceflights beyond Earth's orbit.
With the departure of these two astronauts, NASA loses two important members of its active astronaut team. The space agency will now count on their new roles as emeritus astronauts to continue contributing their experience.
The decision comes at a time when NASA continues to develop the Artemis program, which aims to take astronauts back to the lunar surface. The details about the new roles that Wiseman and Glover will perform were not specified in the article.
