posted 12-18-2020 12:00 AM               

Reid Wiseman named new chief astronaut for 'exciting times to come'

NASA has chosen a new leader to head up its "Artemis Generation" of space explorers and possibly select the first woman and next man to walk on the moon.

Reid Wiseman has been named Chief of the Astronaut Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. An astronaut himself since 2009, Wiseman will now be responsible for assigning crews to future U.S. missions, including commercial flights to the International Space Station and Artemis missions to orbit and maybe land on the moon.