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Artemis missions led by NASA will land humans on the Moon starting from 2025, and later, through the Gateway station in lunar orbit, will serve to transport supplies to the Moon and build a human population base on the Moon's surface. The aim is to construct an environment enabling continuous human activity on the Moon. The Artemis program will be a long-term exercise, so it is crucial that a young generation (the Artemis generation) learns about and participates in the program. When NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy visited JAXA in February 2023, JAXA Space Education Center created this Message to the Artemis Generation:
Below you will find short bios of the speakers and their photos as astronauts or a space engineer.
Col. Melroy working on an ISS assembly mission as Space Shuttle commander (2007)
At present (2023)
Selected in 1994 as a NASA astronaut candidate, serving as a Space Shuttle pilot in 2000 and 2002, and mission commander in 2007, she carried out assembly missions at the International Space Station. She also worked as Branch Chief for the Orion branch of NASA's Astronaut Office. She became Deputy Administrator of NASA in 2021.
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Payload specialist Nelson conducting a medical experiment in the Space Shuttle (1986)
Former United States Senator, and member of the U.S. House of Representatives. During his time in Congress, he worked on various bills relating to NASA and the United States Space Program, serving for 6 years in the lower chamber and 12 years in the upper chamber, where he chaired the Space and Science subcommittee. In 1986 he flew on the Columbia Space Shuttle, making him only the second incumbent member of Congress to have flown in space.He became Administrator of NASA in 2021.
Dr. Yamakawa working on an experiment as a space engineer (1988)
Space engineer.At JAXA, he took part in mission design for various Earth-orbiting scientific satellites and Moon/space probes as well as development of rocket guidance control systems.In the BepiColombo joint mission of the European Space Agency and JAXA to explore the planet Mercury, he worked as initial project manager for the MIO (MMO: Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter).After working as a professor at Kyoto University conducting research into interplanetary navigation and Space Situational Awareness and as a member of the Japanese Government's Committee on National Space Policy, he became JAXA President in 2018.
