According to NASA’s website, the selected candidates will undergo nearly two years of training before they become flight-eligible astronauts for agency missions to low Earth orbit, the Moon, and ultimately, Mars.

According to its website, NASA is seeking “volunteers to passively track the Artemis II Orion spacecraft as the crewed mission travels to the Moon and back to Earth."

NASA and the White House say an international astronaut will be invited on a future moon landing.

The four astronauts assigned to fly around the moon for the first time in 50 years have met with President Joe Biden at the White House.

NASA on Monday introduced the astronauts who will travel around the moon.

NASA named three Americans and one Canadian to the Artemis II crew during a ceremony in Houston Monday.

NASA will host a briefing at 10 a.m. to preview the upcoming Artemis I lunar mission.