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By Joey Roulette, Reuters
NASA astronaut commander Randy Bresnik (left), ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut pilot Luca Parmitano, NASA astronaut mission specialist Frank Rubio, and NASA astronaut mission specialist Andre Douglas.
NASA has named three US astronauts and an Italian astronaut to serve as the crew for its next Artemis mission, a spacecraft docking demonstration in Earth's orbit next year that will test landers from Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin for the first time in space.
NASA administrator Jared Isaacman at a ceremony in Houston named US astronauts Andre Douglas, Frank Rubio, and Randy Bresnik, and Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano as the Artemis III crew, which is due to launch late next year.
