The Artemis 3 mission is designed to be the last NASA mission leading up to a planned 2028 moon landing - and the four astronauts chosen for it will be responsible for tests on two commercially built lunar landers. The Orion spacecraft's pilot will be Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP, an Italian astronaut from the European Space Agency. He is the only member of the Artemis 3 team with an amateur radio callsign.
The team includes test pilot and flight veteran Randy Bresnik, first-timer Andre Douglas and Frank Rubio, who holds the United States record for the single longest spaceflight - a total of 371 days. The lunar landers are being build by Blue Origin and SpaceX.
