Retired Marine Colonel Randy Bresnik to Command NASA's Artemis III Mission
NASA has announced that retired U.S. Marine Corps Colonel Randy Bresnik will command the upcoming Artemis III mission, scheduled for next year. Bresnik, who has been with NASA since 2004, will lead a team that includes European Space Agency pilot Luca Parmitano and NASA astronauts Frank Rubio and Andre Douglas. The mission will build on the achievements of Artemis II, which set a record for the farthest distance traveled from Earth. The Artemis III crew will embark on a two-week mission, starting at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. They will travel to low Earth orbit aboard an Orion spacecraft, where they will rendezvous with Blue Origin's lander pathfinder for tests and demonstrations. The mission will also involve a day of testing with SpaceX's Starship pathfinder before returning to Earth, with a planned splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. 
