Key Points
For the first time in five decades, NASA announced the team of its human spaceflight Mission to the Moon..
Apart from being one of NASA's first such mission in last 50 years, the space team includes first woman and black man to voyage into deep space..
The four astronauts who will be a part of NASA's human spaceflight to the Moon are Jeremy Hansen, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman and Christina Hammock Koch..
The Artemis II flight team consisting of three Americans and one Canadian will be the first to venture that deep into space since the historic Apollo missions that ended in 1972..
As part of the Artemis program, NASA aims to send astronauts to the Moon in 2025 after more than five decades of the final Apollo mission..
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