Former Miramar fighter pilot Randy Bresnik has been selected for NASA's Artemis III crew, which will test lunar landing systems in orbit. The mission could launch as early as late 2027.
- Bresnik, 58, is a veteran NASA astronaut with two space missions. - He will join NASA astronauts Andre Douglas and Frank Rubio, and Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano.
- The crew will test docking with commercial lunar landers from Blue Origin and SpaceX. - No humans have landed on the moon since the Apollo program ended in the 1970s.