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Stellar Torero due selected for historic NASA mission I TO ME E T THE MOON by Julene Snyder

group are two University of San Diego alumni: Matthew Domi- nick ’05 (BS/BA) and Jonathan (“Jonny”) Kim ’12 (BA). Both Dominick (pictured, above) and Kim are now members of a very exclusive community. Before long, they’ll be charting new courses in human history. When Dominick found out that Kim, another University of San Diego alumnus, would be joining the astronaut class back in 2017, he was frankly amazed. “I was super-shocked when I found out,” he said. Although the two didn’t attend USD at the same

bound for the lunar surface. The Artemis Team is described by NASA as “a select group of astro- nauts charged with focusing on the development and training efforts for early Artemis missions.” Through these missions, NASA will send the first woman and the

t’s been nearly half a century since humankind last visited the moon, when the three- person crew of NASA’s Apollo 17 mission touched down near the edge of an ancient lava sea called Mare Serenitatis. Now, the space agency is again

next man to the moon in 2024 and about once per year thereafter. On Dec. 9 2020, the agency revealed which of its 47 active astronauts have been assigned to Artemis to train for humanity’s historic return to the moon. Among that distinguished

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