NASA announces Artemis III crew; taps U.S. astronauts, Italian for mission with SpaceX, Blue Origin mooncraft
NASA named three U.S. astronauts and an Italian astronaut on Tuesday (June 9, 2026) to serve as the crew for its next Artemis mission, a spacecraft docking demonstration in Earth’s orbit next year that will test moon landers from Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin for the first time in space. NASA Administrator…