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本周即将执行绕月飞行任务的四名阿尔忒弥斯II号宇航员，即便在NASA群星荟萃的宇航员队伍中也格外亮眼。
他们包括三名空间站任务老兵和一名加拿大新人：一位是育有两名子女的单身母亲指挥官；一位经验丰富的海军飞行员；一位资深太空行走宇航员，将成为首位登月的女性；以及首位飞入近地轨道之外的加拿大籍宇航员。
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“作为人类，能够前往月球远端回望地球，从月球的视角俯瞰我们的星球，这是何等非凡的体验，”加拿大宇航员杰里米·汉森在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时说道，“无论那番景象如何，那种感受如何，这都是我无比感激的绝佳机遇。”
宇航员克里斯蒂娜·科赫说道：“作为能够将月球称为目的地，而非仅仅是我们仰望的天体的人，我们该作何感想？我们强烈希望，此次任务将开启一个新时代，让地球上的每一个人都能将月球视为目的地之一。”
科赫、汉森、飞行员维克多·格洛弗和指挥官里德·怀斯曼于2023年4月正式公布，当时引发广泛关注。在过去三年里，他们一直在为为期仅9天的绕月飞行任务接受训练，此次开创性飞行将为2028年计划中的登月任务以及月球南极附近的月球基地建设铺平道路。
这支机组为NASA数十年来最具挑战性的任务积累了丰富经验，任务定于周三晚间发射。以下是各位宇航员的简要介绍。
里德·怀斯曼，阿尔忒弥斯II号指挥官
50岁的任务指挥官里德·怀斯曼出生于巴尔的摩，拥有伦斯勒理工学院计算机科学工程学士学位，以及约翰斯·霍普金斯大学系统工程硕士学位。
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他于1999年成为海军飞行员，完成了多次航母部署任务，曾在美国海军试飞员学校驾驶F-35和F-18战斗机，之后再次执行航母部署任务。2009年他在海上服役期间入选NASA宇航员队伍。
怀斯曼首次太空飞行是在2014年，搭乘俄罗斯联盟号宇宙飞船升空，在国际空间站轨道上停留165天，并完成两次太空行走，总时长12小时47分钟。
他的妻子卡罗尔是一名注册护士，2020年在与癌症长期抗争后去世。
“当她病情开始加重时，我想举家搬到她家人居住的地方，”怀斯曼说道，“但她说：‘不，这里是你工作的地方，是你热爱的岗位，我们的孩子也在这里成长，我们就待在这儿。’对我而言，这就是行动指令……继续沿着这条道路走下去。”
他一直保护家人的隐私，但曾表示作为单身父亲抚养女儿是他人生中最大的挑战。
“她们宁愿我不要去，”他在采访中说道，“她们当然更希望我能做个全职爸爸，陪陪她们。但她们也明白这是千载难逢的机会。要知道，父母和孩子一样，都要追求自己的梦想。”
美国海军上尉维克多·格洛弗，阿尔忒弥斯II号飞行员
49岁的格洛弗出生于加利福尼亚州波莫纳，已婚，育有四名子女。他拥有加州州立理工大学工程学士学位，以及军事航空、系统工程和管理学三个硕士学位。
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作为F/A-18飞行员，格洛弗曾在约翰·F·肯尼迪号航空母舰上执行部署任务，曾作为海军交换飞行员在空军试飞员学校服役一年，之后在多个战斗机中队服役，随后被选入美国参议员办公室参与立法交流项目。2013年他在参议院担任立法交流专员期间入选宇航员队伍。
作为四个孩子的父亲，格洛弗累计拥有超过3500小时的飞行时长，驾驶过40多种机型，完成超过400次航母起降和24次战斗任务。2020年至2021年，他担任SpaceX首架运营性龙飞船飞行员，前往国际空间站，在轨道上停留168天，并完成四次太空行走。
“接到这项任务任命时，我正经历人生的一段艰难时期，”他说道，“当时我在生活和工作中都面临着一些实际挑战。当这个任命到来时，对我而言是一个艰难的转型时刻。
“所以我花了些时间先告诉妻子，之后我们选了一个全家人都能团聚的时刻告诉孩子们……当我告诉他们时，他们欢呼起来，大喊‘我们出发吧！’现在我说起这事都要哭了。这正是我需要的，我甚至都没意识到自己需要这份支持。”
克里斯蒂娜·科赫，任务专家
47岁的克里斯蒂娜·科赫（发音为“库克”）出生于密歇根州大急流城，但在北卡罗来纳州杰克逊维尔长大。科赫喜欢冲浪、攀岩、背包旅行、摄影和旅行，拥有北卡罗来纳州立大学工程学士学位，曾在加纳留学。
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她曾在NASA戈达德太空飞行中心担任电气工程师，之后在南极洲担任研究助理，并在阿蒙森-斯科特南极站越冬。随后她在约翰斯·霍普金斯大学工作，帮助为NASA的朱诺号探测器（目前正环绕木星运行）以及两艘用于研究范艾伦辐射带的航天器开发科学仪器。
除此之外，科赫还曾在南极洲和格陵兰岛进行野外工作，之后在美国国家海洋和大气管理局在阿拉斯加和美属萨摩亚工作。
她在成为宇航员前就结识了丈夫，“我记得我们刚开始约会时就跟他说过我正在申请宇航员项目，但别担心，这事不可能成。”
但最终还是成了。她的申请获得批准，并于2013年加入宇航员队伍。2019年至2020年，她在国际空间站上停留328天，完成六次太空行走，包括首次三次全女性太空行走任务。
对于这位毕生致力于地球内外探索的女性而言，阿尔忒弥斯II号任务是顺理成章的下一步。
“对我来说，归根结底是为了回答我们这个时代一些最重大的哲学问题，”她说道，“我们是否孤独？宇宙中是否存在其他生命？我们必须了解太阳系是如何形成的，以及其他恒星周围的太阳系可能如何形成。
“其次，我认为当我们身处月球背后，与其他人类隔绝时，我们会借此机会审视自我。希望那一刻能让我们深刻思考：当人类离开地球前往其他星球时，什么才是重要的？我们真正在乎的是什么？是什么将我们团结在一起，是什么让我们拥有共同点？
“这些问题在我们进行这类大型探索时会得到解答，它们也会影响我们日常生活的方式。”
杰里米·汉森，加拿大任务专家
50岁的杰里米·汉森出生于安大略省伦敦市，在农场长大，高中时期搬到安大略省英格索尔。他喜欢攀岩和山地自行车，也热爱帆船运动，已婚，育有三名子女。
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12岁时，汉森加入加拿大皇家空军青少年中队，开启了终身的航空生涯。16岁时他获得滑翔机飞行员执照，一年后取得私人飞行员执照。
他拥有皇家军事学院空间科学荣誉学士学位，2004年起担任CF-18战斗机飞行员和作战行动军官，参与北美防空联合司令部和北极飞行行动。加拿大航天局于2009年选拔他接受宇航员训练。
2017年，他成为首位领导NASA宇航员班级的加拿大人，并在六年后入选阿尔忒弥斯II号机组。此前已有15名加拿大宇航员进入太空，但无人飞行高度超过近地轨道。汉森将成为首位进入深空、首位绕月飞行的加拿大人。
阿尔忒弥斯II号任务将是NASA巨型太空发射系统火箭的首次载人飞行，也是猎户座乘员舱首次搭载宇航员升空。
“这是一次测试飞行，我们必须愿意承担风险，”汉森说道，“这也是我和家人谈论最多的话题。我非常乐观，我真的相信最有可能的结果是我们所有人都能平安降落在太平洋上。
“但我希望所有人都明白，我们可能会损失机组人员，如果真的发生这种情况，我们也不应感到意外。接下来我们要做的最重要的事，就是组装下一枚火箭，让下四名志愿者登上火箭，继续前行。”
他表示，请求妻子和孩子们接受这种风险“对一个家庭来说要求很高。我的孩子们现在都已经成年，但对他们来说依然是很重的担子。不过他们真的挺身而出，非常支持我。”
NASA’s Artemis II astronauts bring wealth of experience to moon mission. Meet the crew about to make history.
March 30, 2026 / 9:29 AM EDT / CBS News
The four Artemis II astronauts scheduled to launch on a trip around the moon this week stand out even in a NASA astronaut corps full of super achievers.
They include three space station veterans and a Canadian rookie — a commander who is a single parent to two children; an experienced Navy pilot; a veteran spacewalker who will become the first woman to fly to the moon; and the first Canadian who will fly beyond low-Earth orbit.
The Artemis II crew’s official NASA portrait. Back row, left to right: astronaut Christina Koch, pilot Victor Glover, Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen. Front: mission commander Reid Wiseman. NASA
“It’s extraordinary as a human being to go to the far side of the moon and look back and see the Earth from the perspective of the moon,” Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen said in an interview with CBS News. “Whatever that looks like, and whatever that feels like, that is an extraordinary opportunity that I’m very grateful for.”
Said astronaut Christina Koch: “How do we feel as the people that can call the moon (a) destination, not just something we’re looking at? It is our strong hope that this mission is the start of an era where everyone, every person on Earth, can look at the moon and think of it as also a destination.”
Koch, Hansen, pilot Victor Glover and commander Reid Wiseman were selected with great fanfare in April 2023. They have spent the past three years training for a relatively short nine-day mission to loop around the moon, a trailblazing flight that sets the stage for planned moon landings in 2028 and the construction of a lunar base near the moon’s south pole.
The crew brings a wealth of experience to NASA’s most challenging mission in decades — scheduled for liftoff Wednesday evening. Here’s a brief look at the astronauts.
Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander
Mission commander Reid Wiseman, 50, was born in Baltimore, earned a degree in computer and science engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a master’s degree in systems engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo /AFP via Getty Images
He became a naval aviator in 1999, completed multiple aircraft carrier deployments, put in a stint at the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School flying F-35 and F-18 fighter jets before another carrier deployment. He was at sea when he was selected to join NASA’s astronaut corps in 2009.
Wiseman first flew in space in 2014, launching aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, logging 165 days in orbit aboard the International Space Station and completing two spacewalks totaling 12 hours and 47 minutes.
His wife Carroll, a registered nurse, died in 2020 after a long battle with cancer.
“When she really started getting sick, I wanted to move us back towards where her family was from,” Wiseman said. “And she’s like, ‘No, this is where you work. This is the job you love. This is where you work, and this is where our kids are growing up, and we are going to stay right here.’ To me, that was marching orders … to continue down this path.”
He protects the family’s privacy, but has said raising their daughters as a single dad has been the greatest challenge of his life.
“They would rather I not go,” he said in an interview. “They would definitely rather I be a stay-at-home dad and hang out. But they also know that this is a unique opportunity. You know, the parents have to live their dreams just like the kids have to live their dreams.”
U.S. Navy Captain Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot
Born in Pomona, California, Glover, 49, is married and the father of four children. He earned an engineering degree from California Polytechnic State University and three master’s degrees in military aviation, systems engineering and management.
NASA astronaut and Artemis II pilot Victor Glover. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo /AFP via Getty Images
An F/A-18 pilot, Glover logged a deployment aboard USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier, spent a year as a Navy exchange pilot at the Air Force Test Pilot School and went on to fly with several fighter squadrons before being selected for a Legislative Fellowship assigned to the office of a U.S. senator. He was a Legislative Fellow in the Senate when selected as an astronaut in 2013.
A father of four, Glover has logged more than 3,500 hours flying time in more than 40 aircraft, completing more than 400 carrier flights and 24 combat missions. He served as pilot of the first operational SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station in 2020-21, logging 168 days in orbit and completing four spacewalks.
“I was going through a lot when I got assigned to this mission,” he said. “I had some real challenges going on in my life, and I was trying to do some things professionally as well as personally. And when this assignment came up, it was a tough time to shift gears for me.
“So I took some time to tell my wife, and then we told the kids when we could all be together. … When I told them, they erupted, let’s go! I’m about to start crying right now. Like I needed that. I didn’t even know I needed it.”
Christina Koch, mission specialist
Christina Koch (pronounced “Cook”), 47, was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, but grew up in Jacksonville, North Carolina. A surfer and rock climber who enjoys backpacking, photography and travel, Koch holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from North Carolina State University and studied abroad in Ghana.
NASA astronaut and Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch. Miguel J Rodriguez Carrillo /AFP via Getty Images
She worked as an electrical engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center before working as a research associate in Antarctica and wintering over at the Admunsen-Scott South Pole Station. She then worked at Johns Hopkins University, helping develop science instruments for NASA’s Juno probe, now orbiting Jupiter, and two spacecraft designed to study the Van Allen radiation belts.
As if that wasn’t enough, Koch then resumed field work in Antarctica and Greenland before work with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Alaska and Samoa.
She met her husband before becoming an astronaut, “and I remember telling him that I was applying when we started dating and but that, don’t worry, that would never happen.”
But it did. Her application was approved and she joined the astronaut corps in 2013. She logged 328 days in space aboard the International Space Station in 2019-20, conducting six spacewalks, including the first three all-female outings.
The Artemis II mission is a natural step for a woman who has devoted her life to exploration, both on and off the planet.
“To me, what it all comes down to is … answering some of the biggest philosophical questions of our time,” she said. “Are we alone? Could there be life out there? We have to know how our solar system formed, how other solar systems around other stars might have formed.
“And secondly, I think we go to learn about ourselves when we are behind the moon and we’re separated from the rest of humanity. Hopefully that’s a poignant moment where we can think to ourselves, what is important when you send other humans off of the planet? What do we care about? What unites us, what makes us the same?
“Those questions are answered when we take these big journeys, and they inform how we live our everyday lives.”
Jeremy Hansen, Canadian mission specialist
Born in London, Ontario, Hansen, 50, grew up on a farm until his high school years in Ingersoll, Ontario. A rock climber and mountain biker who enjoys sailing, he is married and the father of three children.
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Artemis II mission specialist Jeremy Hansen. Miguel J. Rodriguez CARRILLO /AFP via Getty Images
At age 12, Hansen began what turned into a lifelong career in aviation, joining the Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron and earning his glider pilot wings at 16 and a private pilot’s license a year later.
He earned a bachelor’s degree, with honors, in space science from the Royal Military College and starting in 2004, served as a CF-18 fighter pilot and combat operations officer, working with NORAD and Arctic flying operations. The Canadian Space Agency selected him for astronaut training in 2009.
In 2017 he became the first Canadian to lead a NASA astronaut class and was named to the Artemis II crew six years later. Fifteen Canadians have flown in space, but none have flown farther than low-Earth orbit. Hansen will be the first to venture into deep space and the first to fly around the moon.
The Artemis II mission will be the first piloted flight of NASA’s giant Space Launch System rocket and the first flight of an Orion crew capsule with astronauts on board.
“It’s a test flight, and we have to be willing to take that risk,” Hansen said. “And that’s the one that I talk to my family about. I’m very optimistic. I truly believe the most likely outcome is we’ll all be totally fine when we hit the Pacific Ocean.
“But I want everyone to understand that you can lose a crew, and if we do that, it shouldn’t shock us. And the most important thing we do next is we stack the next rocket, and let the next four volunteers get on top of it and go.”
He said asking his wife and children to accept that risk is “a lot to ask of a family. My kids are all young adults now, but still a lot to ask of them. But they’re really showing up. They’re really supportive.”