New Delhi, March 30 -- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) may send four astronauts on a spacecraft as part of its first crewed mission to the Moon in over five decades, a journey expected to take them farther into deep space than any humans have traveled before.

USA Today reported that these astronauts will travel up to 6,000 miles beyond the Moon's surface; the crew of NASA's mission, known as Artemis II, will witness parts of the far side of the Moon that not even the Apollo astronauts viewed. The liftoff is targeted for Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Among the four astronauts of the Artemis II crew will be the first Black man, the first woman, and the first Canadian to ever f...