NASA administrator drops hints about the woman selected for moon mission. Here’s the short list
CNNCNN Films’ “Apollo 11” explores the exhilaration of humanity’s first landing on the moon through newly discovered and restored archival footage. She led the astronaut corps in the development of NASA’s Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket, which the space agency plans to use for the lunar mission. Megan McArthur Selected as an astronaut in 2000, McArthur served as the mission specialist on board the final space shuttle journey to the Hubble telescope in 2009, logging nearly 13 days in space. Kate Rubins Selected by NASA in 2009 for the Astronaut Corps, Rubins logged 115 days in space onboard ISS in 2016. She is currently training to be an astronaut on Boeing’s Starliner and is slated to conduct her third long-duration space mission aboard ISS.