Meet the four astronauts who’ll push Orion to its limits 👨‍🚀👨‍🚀👨‍🚀👨‍🚀 NASA has just announced the Artemis III crew: Commander @astrokomrade. Lander specialists @astro_frankrubio and @astro_andred. And as pilot, our very own @astro_luca. This is a crew that’s ready for one of the most ambitious test flights in human spaceflight history. Now, let’s talk about Luca: 366 days in space. Six spacewalks. Commander of the @iss. More than 2000 hours in the air, across 40+ types of aircraft. He’s not just an astronaut. He’s an experimental test pilot, the kind of person built for exactly this. Artemis III is all about pushing the absolute limits of what a crewed spacecraft can do in orbit. Rendezvous, docking, complex manoeuvres. The procedures that future crews will depend on to actually reach the lunar surface. And Luca will also be at the controls of this mission. He won’t be flying alone in more ways than one, though. European industry is on board too, literally, in the form of o...