Reid Wiseman is an American NASA astronaut, United States Navy captain and test pilot who commanded the 2026 Artemis II lunar flyby, the first crewed flight around the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. He served as the seventeenth chief of the NASA Astronaut Office from 2020 to 2022 before returning to flight status for Artemis II.
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Reid Wiseman is a NASA astronaut who commands the Artemis II crewed lunar flyby mission.
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1975-11-11
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On April 1, 2026, he launched on Artemis II, becoming the first commander of a lunar mission since Gene Cernan on Apollo 17 and the oldest person to travel beyond low Earth orbit at age 50.
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He was the commander of the 2026 Artemis II lunar flyby mission
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Gregory Reid Wiseman (born November 11, 1975) is a United States Navy captain, test pilot, and NASA astronaut (emeritus).
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He was the commander of the 2026 Artemis II lunar flyby mission, the first crewed flight around the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.
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"name": "Gregory R. Wiseman" ... "flights_count": 2
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Artemis II was crewed by four astronauts: commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialist Christina Koch, all from the NASA Astronaut Corps, along with mission specialist Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Astronaut Corps.
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