NASA will announce its new astronaut class next month, and you’ll be able to watch the unveiling live.<\/p>\n
The 2025 class of NASA<\/a> astronaut candidates will be announced Sept. 22 during a livestreamed event at NASA’s Johnson Space Center<\/a> in Houston that begins at 12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 GMT; 11:30 a.m. local time in Houston).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You can catch coverage of the event on NASA+, Netflix, Amazon Prime, NASA’s YouTube channel, and the agency’s X account. Space.com will also simulcast the event, if NASA makes its stream available.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n The selectees were narrowed down from a field of 8,000 applicants. The new astronaut candidates will next undergo roughly two years of training at NASA before being certified as full astronauts, eligible for future missions.<\/p>\n NASA also plans to host several media briefings on Sept. 23 and Sept. 24 to discuss the Artemis 2<\/a> mission that will send four astronauts around the moon<\/a> no earlier than April 2026. These events will stream live on NASA’s YouTube channel and X account (as well as at Space.com<\/a>, if possible).<\/p>\n On board Artemis 2 will be NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman<\/a> (commander), Victor Glover<\/a> (pilot) and Christina Koch<\/a> (mission specialist), and Canadian Space Agency<\/a> astronaut and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen<\/a>. Glover will be the first Black astronaut ever to fly a moon mission, while Koch will be the first woman and Hansen the first non-American.<\/p>\n Here are the scheduled briefings for Artemis 2:<\/p>\n Tuesday, Sept. 23: <\/strong><\/p>\n 11 a.m. EDT (10 a.m. local time, 1500 GMT): Mission overview briefing with the following participants <\/strong><\/p>\n 1 p.m. EDT (12 p.m. local time, 1700 GMT): Artemis 2 science and technology briefing with the following participants:<\/p>\n Wednesday, Sept. 24<\/strong><\/p>\n 10 a.m. EDT (12 p.m. local time, 1400 GMT): Artemis 2 crew news conference featuring:<\/p>\n\n
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