NASA is planning on sending the first woman ever and the first man in nearly five decades to the moon by 2024.
Only 12 humans, all male, have ever walked on the moon and they were all American, according to Bettina Inclán, NASA Communications Director.
“The last person walked on the Moon in 1972,” Inclán told CNN in a statement. “No woman has ever walked on the lunar surface.”
The space agency also revealed the new mission’s name will be Artemis, the Greek goddess of the moon and twin sister of Apollo.
NASA’s Apollo 11 mission succeeded in landing the first humans on the moon on July 20, 1969.