The four astronauts of NASA‘s Artemis-2 mission are getting used to life on Earth again. The crew splashed down in the Pacific after their flyby of the Moon. The astronauts took photos of the lunar surface, including one spot called the Ocean of Storms. One astronaut from Mobile was supposed to get a lot closer than that. Clifton Williams was meant to land there during Apollo 12 in 1969.
“Okay, I guess you all know why you’re here today and why we’re here,” said Deke Slayton during a NASA press conference on October of 1963. He was one of NASA’s original “Mercury-7.”
“We’d like to introduce the new group of 14 astronauts that we’ve been in the process of selecting for about the last four months,” he said
NASA was gearing up for the space race against Russia. The winner would put a man on the moon first…