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Jul 3, 2024

NASA announces Artemis 2 moon mission backup astronaut — Andre Douglas will support 2025 lunar liftoff

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“I’ve always been fascinated with new things. I like to develop things,” Douglas told Space.com in March about the Artemis program, which later this decade aims to put astronauts on the moon’s surface for the first time since 1972. “I really believe in pushing ourselves, in understanding what is our true potential: both me as an individual, [and] within all of us as a species.”

“This is the perfect place to be, where we’re going to push that boundary,” he said.

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