{"id":450534,"date":"2026-06-10T05:32:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=46beef5963ca99a816065050783d873d"},"modified":"2026-06-10T05:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:32:29","slug":"artemis-iii-crew-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=450534","title":{"rendered":"Artemis III Crew Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jsc2026e392659.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jsc2026e392659.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"From left to right, NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano, and NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik and Frank Rubio take a photo together. Their arms are linked around each other&#039;s shoulders. Behind them are the flags of the United States, Texas, NASA, and ESA.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" loading=\"eager\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jsc2026e392659.jpg 8017w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jsc2026e392659.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jsc2026e392659.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jsc2026e392659.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jsc2026e392659.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jsc2026e392659.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jsc2026e392659.jpg?resize=400,267 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jsc2026e392659.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jsc2026e392659.jpg?resize=900,600 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jsc2026e392659.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jsc2026e392659.jpg?resize=2000,1333 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/Robert Markowitz<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NASA astronaut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/nasa-astronaut-andre-douglas\/\">Andre Douglas<\/a>, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration\/Astronauts\/Luca_Parmitano\" rel=\"noopener\">Luca Parmitano<\/a>, and NASA astronauts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/randolph-komrade-bresnik\/\">Randy Bresnik<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/frank-rubio\/\">Frank Rubio<\/a> take a photo together on June 9, 2026. The four were announced as the Artemis III crew.<\/p>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/artemis-iii\/\">Artemis III mission<\/a> in low Earth orbit will test integrated operations between the Orion spacecraft and one or both commercial landers from SpaceX and Blue Origin respectively.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-marches-toward-artemis-iii-mission-in-2027-names-crew-members\/\">Learn more about the next Artemis mission and the crew.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: NASA\/Robert Markowitz<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano, and NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik and Frank Rubio take a photo together on June 9, 2026. The four were announced as the Artemis III crew. NASA\u2019s Artemis III mission in low Earth orbit will test integrated operations between the Orion spacecraft and one or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19077,16342,20413,18065],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andre-douglas","category-artemis-3","category-bob-hines","category-frank-rubio"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=450534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450592,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450534\/revisions\/450592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}