And she now personifies our path forward in more ways than one.

NASA Is Now Accepting Proposals for Artemis Landers to Fly Astronauts to the Moon. The only thing standing between you and your dream is a simple application. The final astronaut candidates are expected to be selected by the middle of next year and would then begin training as the next class of Artemis Generation astronauts, according to NASA. The application process opened Monday. You want to be an astronaut. By Tariq Malik 01 October 2019. Artemis is the twin sister of Apollo, and a goddess of the Moon.

These are the first astronauts to join NASA since its Artemis program was announced. The ultimate long-term goal is to send astronauts to Mars someday, and NASA hopes to use its Artemis program to learn and train for eventually sending people to the Red Planet someday.

NASA has a wide selection to choose from for its next class of astronauts, who could be among the first to head back to the moon and on to Mars through the space agency's Artemis program.

The first company with a lander will win the 2024 mission, NASA says.

In doing so, we also accelerated our plans for our next giant leap – sending astronauts to Mars. MELBOURNE, Fla. – NASA has a wide selection to choose from for its next class of astronauts, who could be among the first to head back to the moon and on to Mars through the space agency's Artemis program.The astronaut application program closed March 31 and the space agency drew more than 12,000 applicants from every U.S. state, the District of Columbia and four U.S. territories. NASA needs new astronauts. NASA says it has 48 active astronauts in its corps and it needs more. We committed to making these goals a reality, and soon after, I announced the name for our efforts: the Artemis program. The application process will take awhile, but NASA expects to make its final selections for astronaut candidates in mid-2021. This will be the next class of what NASA is calling the Artemis Generation. The 13 astronauts, 11 from NASA and 2 from CSA, are the first candidates to graduate under the Artemis program and will become eligible for spaceflight, including assignments to …