The Leader of NASA’s Artemis II Mission Is Still Moonstruck | The New Yorker
The astronaut Reid Wiseman talks about going deeper into space than anyone in history, eating maple cookies in microgravity, and deciding how to spend his first day off after returning to Earth.
Save this story Save this story Last month, for the first time in more than fifty years, four astronauts flew to the moon and back. Their mission, Artemis II, was a test run for future endeavors, including the construction of a NASA base on the lunar surface. Reid Wiseman, a former U.S. Naval aviator who served as the mission’s commander, told me that the journey made him think about the Apollo astronauts of the nineteen-sixties. “I wonder if they were a little bit scared, because I’m a little bit scared,” he remembered thinking. “I bet they were.” NASA ’s most powerful rocket hurled them more
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