- Raja Jon Vurputoor Chari, an Indian-American US Air Force colonel, is among 11 new NASA graduates who have successfully completed their over two years’ of basic astronaut training.
- With a goal of sustainable lunar exploration later this decade, NASA will send the first woman and next man to the surface on the Moon by 2024.
- Additional lunar missions are planned once a year thereafter and human exploration of Mars is targeted for the mid-2030s.
