Astronauts Going To Space 2024 Release Date. Spacex launched the rescue mission on saturday with a downsized crew of two astronauts and two empty seats reserved for butch wilmore and suni williams, who will return. Ryan stone and commander matt kowalski, respectively, two astronauts on a mission orbiting the earth.

Artemis 2 will send astronauts back to the moon for the first time since 1972. But no humans will set foot on the lunar surface.