The Athena III Crew

One year ago today, President Fenway spoke to the crew selected for the Athena III mission to return humans to the lunar surface. Now, there are six weeks left before that goal becomes reality. It hasn’t been an easy year for Captain Kelsey Clark, Pierre Laurent, and Alexei Levedev as they went through rigorous training to prepare for the pivotal mission in the Athena program. Space Informer has put together profiles for the Athena III crew:

Kelsey Clark

• Studied civil engineering at California Institute of Technology 

• Former Air Force test pilot

• NASA astronaut

Pierre Laurent

• Studied aerospace at Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace

• Born in France

• European Space Agency astronaut 

Alexei Levedev

• Studied mathematics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

• Flight engineer training 

• Russian Cosmonaut