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NASA once touted the diversity of Artemis II's astronauts. Now, they're no longer talking about it

NASA is set to send four astronauts around the moon with the Artemis II mission. The crew contains four people, including one woman and one Black man, both of whom will be the first on a lunar mission. But NASA hasn’t been talking about these milestones much lately.

NPR’s Katie Riddle reports.

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