Giant Gold Nugget Worth $160,000 Is Found by Amateur Gold Hunter in Australia

Sometimes, the greatest discoveries come with their fair share of beginners luck. An amateur gold hunter based in Victoria, Australia, literally struck gold armed only with an affordable metal detector. Having spotted a rock that could be loaded with this precious metal, he hoped to find maybe a tiny gold nugget inside that he could sell for some good money. When he took it to Lucky Strike Gold, a gold prospecting business, he was told by the owner that his finding was worth much more than he initially thought.

The rock is 4.6 kilograms (10.1 pounds), and contains about 2.6 kilograms (5.7 pounds) of gold. Initially, the gold hunter found the rock to be very dirty and had a hard time spotting the gold on its surface. However, once it was cleaned by the prospector, the precious metal revealed itself. You could see the gold just come oozing out of the rock everywhere, Darren Kamp, the owner of Lucky Strike Gold told CNN.

When it hit my hand, my jaw dropped with it, Kamp recalls. It was just incredible. Once-in-a-lifetime find. The finder, who wants to remain anonymous, asked Kamp if there could be AU$10,000 (US$6,675) worth of gold in it, to which the owner replied try $100,000.' The best part? This was only part of the discovery, as the man had accidentally split the rock in two when unearthing it, and had another valuable piece at home. In the end, the gold was valued at AU$240,000 (US$160,000).

The rockwhich has been named Lucky Strike Nugget, after the prospecting shop that unveiled its treasureswas found in an area known as the Golden Triangle. This region experienced a gold rush in the 19th century, and it is once again seeing a surge of gold hunters. Many people have picked up gold digging as a way to make some money given that the price of the precious metal is reaching an all-time high. The unnamed finder set out to...

Leah Ke Yi Zhengs recent paintings thematize the vanishing act. In Untitled (rose island), 202123, a neon structure radiates before a deep-sea-colored ground and depicts an isometric projection of

Futuristic Travel Trailer Swivels Open To Reveal a Deck for Lounging on the Road

Some camper caravans think outside the box, and the newly produced Romotow is one of them. It's one of the most original travel trailers on the market with a sleek, futuristic design that rotates to reveal another part of its layout. When swiveled open, it has a covered deck alongside a sleeper main cabin for four to six people.

The awe-inspiring design is made possible with an automatic hydraulic system. It's powered by a lithium battery that's charged with help from solar panels on the trailer's roof. The mechanism pushes the cabin outward 90 degrees, creating an L-shape and making the deck accessible. The previously hidden patio space has a teak-like appearance with plenty of room for outdoor furniture. Additionally, theres an option for built-in conveniences like a fold-down bench seat, a table built into its rounded front, or mesh side walls to keep the bugs away.

Camper caravans are not known for having a lot of space, but there are ways to make a small area feel larger. Romotow does this with wraparound windows in its dining area. The dinette doubles as sleeping quarters, transforming into a single double bed or two single beds. Additionally, theres a lift-away double bed.

Past the dining area, there is a kitchenette thats available in two styles depending on the needs of the traveler. Regardless of what someone chooses, theres a full dry bathroom behind it and a private bedroomcomplete with a closet and two circular windowsbeyond that.

Add-ons like additional solar panels, mounted TVs, and an outdoor projection system make the Romotow comfortable for more than just a road trip every once and a while; its something someone could live in on a full-time basis.

The Romotow is manufactured in New Zealand and has a starting price of NZ$429,000 (about US$270,000).

Some camper caravans think outside the box. Romotow is one of them with a sleek futuristic design that can rotate to reveal a deck.

Ted Bonin, who with Carolyn Alexander founded the New York gallery Alexander and Bonin, died unexpectedly of natural causes at his Manhattan home on April 4 at the age of sixty-five. His death was first

How an Embroidery Artist Turned Her Thread Sketching Into a Vibrant Body of Art [Interview]

Embroidery artist Danielle Clough finds unusual places to put thread. Known for her stitched designs that sprawl the laces of vintage rackets, she isnt afraid to try new avenues for her work. Like many artists, Clough is continually pushing herself to explore and experiment, ultimately honing her visual language. The vintage rackets, which she began nearly a decade ago, werent forever. She's now focusing her creative energies on other projects, but the hallmarks of her worka painterly application of stitches and use of vibrant colorsremain.

After transitioning away from embroidery on rackets, Clough continues to employ her brilliant use of hues to create portraiture, still life, and nature-inspired works. Some of the pieces venture further into the realm of abstraction with a co-mingling of embroidery threads and watercolor painting. Her Girl Dust collection, however, is fully abstract. The series combines pieces of cut thread and yarn from her other works as she arranges them into large, swirling universes of color that are housed in circular frames.

We had the opportunity to speak with Clough about her work and where her love of bright colors comes from. Scroll down to read My Modern Mets exclusive interview.

Embroidery artist Danielle Clough discusses her creative journey, from stitching on vintage rackets to creating artwork based on her countless thread scraps.

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Terracotta Blues series wheel thrown by Chiara Zoppei. All images Clara Holt, shared with permission

Drawing on the long history of Mediterranean ceramics, Italian artist Clara Holt covers the surfaces of vessels, tiles, and tablets with playful, colorful narratives. Inspired by the regions ancient decorative pottery like the Minoan octopus flask or Greek and Etruscan vase painting, she illustrates references to mythology, nature, customs, and folklore.

As a child, Holts grandparents told stories of Greek heroes and monsters, and she devoured books about the ancient gods and legends. Mythology fascinated me because it was like a bridge that could connect our present with a dimension far away in timea time so far away that it could only be told with a dose of fantastic storytelling, she says. As she grew older, her interests expanded to Nordic lore and the Old Norse sagas. Today, she borrows imagery and motifs from the timeless tales, recontextualizing them into mysterious narratives.

Employing a traditional Italian pottery decoration technique called sgraffito, meaning scratched, Holt carefully incises shallow cuts out of the smooth surface of a glazed pot, revealing the outlines of figures, animals, plants, and landscapes. In her series Terracotta Blues, the characters exist within an undefined story that circle around tall earthenware vases, creating dreamlike scenes and imaginary chara...

Banditry marks the first in a series of exhibitions curated by Yaby (Beatriz Ortega Botas and Alberto Vallejo) about reading as a process entangled in power relations. Claudia Pags underscores the

GRENFELL WAS FILMED in December 2017, about six months after the catastrophic fire of June 14, when seventy-two people were killed as the tower, a social housing block in North Kensington, London,

5 Best-Selling Online Art Classes to Help You Learn to Draw and Paint

Photo: Melissa de Nobrega / My Modern Met Academy

Our e-learning platform My Modern Met Academy has been around for over a year. In that time, weve launched many online classes covering art, photography, and crafts. You can start anywhere in your My Modern Met Academy journey, but if youre wanting some suggestions, take them from our students. Here, were sharing some of our best-selling classes on our platform.

Drawing makes up some of our most popular courses and we have a variety to choose from. Learn how to draw architecture from artist Demi Lang in her course Architectural Illustration for Everyone: Draw Buildings in Ink and Colored Pencil. Alternatively, understand how to break down one of the most complex subjectsthe human facewhen you enroll in Portrait Drawing for Beginners: Learn How to Draw Anyone Youd Like with Melissa De Nobrega.

Our popular painting classes are a nod toward abstraction. Artist Dimitra Milan shows how to combine an abstract, free-flowing background with a naturalistic drawing in Abstract Realism: Introduction to Mixed Media Painting. Its an intermediate-level class that assumes you have some knowledge of how to draw. If youre looking for something where sketching isnt as involved, give Nitika Ales class a try....

If youve lived a good amount of time, theres a good chance youve had at least one experience that absolutely raised every hair on your body one that made you realize youve just got to get the heck out of Dodge.

These 17 people are recounting theirs, so make sure your lights are on and the doors are locked before you take the plunge!

17. The worst neighbors.

When I was 27 my girlfriend lived in a crappy part of Hollywood, FL near US1. She had a kid pretty young but the dad ended up going to jail for assault. The place she could afford was run down af, with all sorts of addicts and genuine low-lifes living in the units around her. She hated the place. She couldnt move in with me becau se I was just renting a room where I lived. It was better than living at her parents though (drunk abusive dad, addict mom).

I went to visit her after my shift ended at 9PM. Picked up some food and planned to cook for her. We were there for about an hour just sitting on the couch watching her kid play with a box.

Then the banging started on the door. She looks terrified thinking its her ex. Im kind of freaked out also because I heard all these stories about him. Some guy is cursing, hitting something against the door hard. We dont even want to peek through the window or peephole thinking hes got a gun. We call the police but the operator is having a tough time hearing.

Then we hear some other woman screaming and cursing. He had the wrong door. We hear them start fighting. Smashing, more screaming. Sounds like shes spitting and we hear punches. Were not sure if its her or him but its loud.

911 operator says police are on their way. The kid starts...

If you had to choose a living cultural figure to represent nineteen-seventies America, you could do much worse than Burt Sugarman. He made his name as a television impresario with The Midnight Special, which put on NBCs airwaves performances by everyone from ABBA to AC/DC, REO Speedwagon to Roxy Music, and War to Weather Report. Breaking with common practice at the time, the show allowed these acts to perform live rather than lip-sync against pre-recorded tracks. Thus, even viewers who tuned in to The Midnight Special to see their favorite bands were guaranteed to hear something theyd never heard before.

They stayed up quite late to do so: The Midnight Special followed The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, which meant that it aired at midnight in the Central and Mountain time zones, and 1:00 in Eastern and Pacific. In 1972, the notion of putting on a music show at that hour was unfamiliar enough that Sugarman had trouble selling it.

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A Few Ways to Win the World is a show of gazes. It opens with the direct stares of the Slavic fairies whose charms lead men to their death in Martina Vachevas Samodivi, 2019, and of the lone dancer

Beyond his vital contribution to literature as a founder of New Narrative, Robert Glck has, since 1966, built up a body of ceramics, which is now being exhibited for the first time in Ghosts and

Listen, I love my dogs as much as the next person. I do what I can to give them the care and attention they require, but Im also going to be the first one to admit that, after I had children, the dogs dropped a few spots in the pecking order.

It seems as if OP is yet to learn this lesson, since his baby is still gestating, but based on this story I think hes got some ducks to get back in line before its born.

He begins the story by saying that his high-intensity dog has become an escape artist, and he spends hours every week chasing it down and bringing it home. He has tried one alteration to his fence, but has yet to solve the issue.

My fiance (28f) is currently 5 months pregnant and has been both fatigued and nauseous lately. I get why she didnt want to help me look for the dog but I cant get over the lack of empathy and bordering selfish behavior of this either.

My dog (6yo Heeler/Corgi mix) runs off at least once a week. Usually my fiance will help me find her but its not without protest.

I honestly didnt even know how she was getting out of our fenced yard so I installed cameras and found that she was scaling the 8ft fence.

I ended up attaching spinners to the top of the fence thinking that would solve the issue but it didnt.

Recently, it escaped again during the two minutes he went inside to grab his phone.

I brought her out today and was playing with her when my phone rang. I was inside just long enough to grab my phone and my dog had gotten out. I immediately went in search for her, thinking she couldnt have gotten far but I couldnt find her anywhere so I went back to the house and asked my fiance, who was curled up on the sofa, to come help me.

He wanted his pregnant fiancee...

Family relationships can be tricky, especially when new people are being brought into the fold. Most of us try to welcome in-laws with open arms, but personalities can clash no matter how hard we try.

OP lives abroad with her family. Her brother met his now-wife while back in the States but they recently moved back to his home country after finding out she was pregnant.

My (29F) brother Todd (33M) is married to Hayley (31F) and they have a 10mo son, Josh. My family moved in Switzerland when we were young, but Todd when back to the US for college which is where he met Hayley, and theyve since moved back to Switzerland when Hayley got pregnant.

Since they arrived abroad and had a child, OP says her sister-in-law has been attempting to involve her and her mother in her marital issues. They have both repeatedly told her that they do not want to get involved in their sons/brothers marriage and asked her to stop.

Since Hayley and Todd got married, and especially since she gave birth, Hayley has been trying to involve my mother and me in her and Todds relationship. She started texting my mother when she and Todd would disagree, asking my mother her opinion or if she could talk to Todd on her behalf. My mother was very uncomfortable with this. My mother was happy to help out with anything to do with adjusting to living in a different country, but she really didnt want to get involved in Hayley and Todds relationship.

Then Hayley started texting me. She would get in a disagreement with Todd and text me the next day asking me to come to her house to talk about it, or ask me for advice. I said was not getting involved in my brothers marriage and that it was inappropriate, but that didnt stop her.

She started showing up at my mothers house unannounced and even tried t...

Not everyone is great at telling when people are lying or telling the truth. That said, sometimes lies have been told so many times theres no excuse for buying them any longer.

These 17 definitely fall into that category, according to these folks on Reddit.

17. Can confirm.

You no longer get zits when you get older

God I hate people born with smooth skin giving me this s*%t advice like wash your face clean your sheets itll get better with age

My face at any given time is cleaner than yours has ever been, my sheets dont stay on the bed more than a few days, and my pillow daily, and Im not a kid anymore. Plus I eat near no sugar and never touch my face outside the shower.

I still get acne. arggghhh

16. Actions speak louder than words.

Your call is important to us. Please stay on the line.

15. Put that baby back.

That mama birds wont take their babies back after humans touch them. Put that baby back

Edit: I didnt expect that to take off, lol.

But, yes, there are many types of birds that will end up on the floor either way, but you might end up saving one bird that gets to stay.

14. Maybe some day.

Number 14 will SHOCK you!

Gets me every d**n time. When will I learn?

13. People still believe that?

That MLMs are a good source of income.

12. The whole belief.

The whole belief of small animals like reptiles, fish and rodents have no intellig...

Waiting tables isnt a career for everyone, but many of us have done it at one time or another. For me, it was a great gig for several years of my life, and I can verify the people watching opportunities are hard to match.

These 17 servers saw things on Valentines Day that they wont soon forget, and thanks to Reddit, neither will you.

17. Heres where you can find him.

Not waitstaff, but I used to work Front Desk at a hotel. One Valentines Day I was working the night shift, and this woman comes down with a cut above her eye looking like she just went a few rounds in the ring with a boxer. Woman starts sobbing and asks us to call the coos which we do immediately. Turns out this girls boyfriend just beat the shit out of her during a fight, and from what I could tell this probably wasnt the first time.

So after the cops show up and haul the dude off, my manager offers her a different room on comp as we need to leave the guys stuff where it is for him to pick up the next day. She accepts, and I go up with the woman to help her collect her stuff and move to the new room. There were a bunch of bottles of alcohol in the room, and she donated them to the front desk staff. I got a bottle of Hypnotiq, and some vodka. Manager got a bottle of Patron.

Cherry on top of everything, the dudes wife called later that night saying someone had stolen his card as he was out of town on a business trip. Never one to defend an abuser, I told her where she could find her husband. Fun times.

16. And obviously they lived happily ever after.

I blew my cars tire and my friend came in to bail me out. Were both straight dudes and forgot it was valentines. Decided to have dinner...

Louise Aline Barnsdalls Hollyhock House was intended to be a temple to artistic invention. But the oil heiress and arts patron, who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design it, found the architect so

With spring in full swing, these 10 shows focus on new beginnings, old friends, and transformations. The Hammer Museum inaugurates its new gallery, 20 years in the making, with a laser light installation by Rita McBride, while Lisson opens its new LA space with a solo show from the late Cuban-born painter Carmen Herrera. Make me feel mighty real at Honor Fraser chronicles the long history of avatars in queer culture from the underground to digital spaces, and Robert Russell at Anat Ebgi reveals the darkness under a surface of kitsch. At prjctLA, Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio share documentation of their latest LA River project, presenting a model for reconnecting the waterway to its natural floodplain, a forward-looking proposal rooted in history.

Patrisse Cullors and no olivas: Freedom Portals

Sing, goddess, of the wrath of John Wick, the widow of Helen and defender of canines. Like the famous first line of Homers Iliad, which begins with a request to the muse of epic poetry to tell us of the wrath of Achilles, the four John Wick films begin and end with the ire and vengeance exacted by one man: an assassin-protagonist named John Wick. The body count is high, but Wick, played by Keanu Reeves, has more affability and mild-mannered words than the ancient Greek hero ever mustered. And as in the films prior, familiar tales of Greek and Roman mythology abound in this allegedly final chapter of the cult series. In the newly released film, Wick undertakes an odyssey through museums and monuments from Tokyo to New York to Berlin to Paris. The nearly three-hour film was meant to conclude our own 10-year journey homeward with the sympathetic assassin.

At the start of the first movie in the series, John Wick (2014), the murder of a beagle given to Wick by his now-deceased wife, Helen, launches the proverbial 1,000 ships...

Technology is so great. It makes our lives easier in ways we can hardly even count these days, and most of us are grateful for the ease it has brought to our lives. I mean, the more things that save me time, the better.

That said, it does have its downside and journalist Joseph Cox from Vice may have exposed one when he used it to break into his own bank account.

He was testing the limits of AI voice cloning and created a clone of his own voice to use in a phone call to his bank.

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Worlds Deepest Fish Caught on Camera for the First Time at 27,000 Feet Deep

Photo: Minderoo-University of Western Australia Deep Sea Research Centre

Researchers have seemingly been exploring the ocean forever, yet there is still so much unknown within its depths. There are always new creatures being discovered and mysteries being unveiled. Just recently, a team of scientists from the University of Western Australia and the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology have broken a record by filming the world's deepest fish, which lives in the depths of the Izu-Ogasawara Trench off the coast of Japan at a staggering 8,336 meters (about 27,329 feet).

The unknown snailfish in the footage belongs to the genus Pseudoliparis. It has the appearance of a light-colored, large tadpole with fins on the side. These snailfish do not have any scales nor a swim bladder, unlike other fish species. The lack of the latter feature allows them to live under the extreme pressure of the deepest parts of the trench.

On top of discovering the deepest fish ever caught on camera, the scientists also captured two Pseudoliparis belyaevi snailfish with the help of traps set at a depth of about 8,022 meters (26,319 feet). According to a press release from the University of Western Australia, this the first time that fish have been caught at a depth of more than 8,000 meters (26,247 feet) with the help of baited cameras.

The Izu-Ogasawara is not as deep as the more popular Marianas Trench, where not that many creatures have been found at the 8,000-meter mark compared to the abundance of fish in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench. In other trenches such as the Mariana Trench, we were finding them at increasingly deeper depths just creeping over that 8,000-meter mark in fewer and fewer numbers, but around Japan they are really quite abundant, said Professor Alan Jamieson of the Minderoo-UWA Deep Sea Research Centre, who led the expedition.

The Japanese trenches were...

Minerva Cuevass solo show, In Gods We Trust at kurimanzutto, centers on The Trust (202223), a mural wall relief consisting of 126 panels. As is typical for Cuevas, the work concerns economic and environmental issues that affect communities across generations and cultures. In the case of The Trust, the artist highlights the origins and continued impact of these issues. 

The work is rife with imagery and symbols from pre-Hispanic cultures and mythology, including the Aztec goddess of water and fertility, Chalchiuhtlicue, and the mythological deity of lust, vice, and excess, Tlazoltotl. These are paired with representations of plants, animals, and symbols of natural resources like the sun and rain. Interspersed are recognizable emblems from contemporary corporations, including banks and oil companies from across the world though most are American. A Shell oil logo sits next to an image of a conch shell. A closer look at the sun reveals the British Petroleum symbol. A soaring eagle is the...

Artist Chitra Ganeshs Queer Power! coloring book encourages us to work mindfully and remember who we love, who we have lost, and who we can look to for guidance during this legislative siege thats chipping away at trans and womens rights with each passing day. Using black and white illustrations, Ganesh manifests queer futurities through an examination of resistance, activism, and connectivity within New Yorks marginalized communities and beyond.

Queer Power! was born from the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Arts (LLM) annual QUEERPOWER installation commission curated by Riya Lerner in October 2020. Ganesh installed illustrative panels in the windows of the museums faade that celebrated NYCs queer histories and paid homage to the Indigenous stewards of Lenapehoking (now the greater tristate area, spilling over into Delaware and Connecticut) as well as the 19th-century Black settlement of Seneca Village (now Central Park). The research-based installation was organized while people were still avoiding museums and other indoor venues due to COVID-19. Therefore, Ganesh and the LLMs staff opted to activate the museums exterior with historical and political context and complimented the window panels with audio interviews from the historical figures and contemporary activists represented in the project.

Let that number sink in for a minute 230 GRANDCHILDREN.

Its pretty unbelievable, right? But its all true!

And a 98-year-old woman in Kentucky named Cordelia Mae Hawkins not only has that many grandkids, but she recently met her great-great-great-granddaughter for the very first time.

Photo Credit: Facebook

Hawkins got to hold her great-great-great-granddaughter, 7-week-old Zhavia Whitaker, when her family paid a visit to her nursing home facility in Kings Mountain, Kentucky.

In the photo below are Hawkins daughter, Frances Snow, 77; Hawkins and baby Zhavia; granddaughter Gracie Snow Howell; great-granddaughter Jacqueline Ledford, 29; and great-great-granddaughter Jaisline Wilson, 19.

Thats a whole lot of generations in one family photo!

Just before I started writing this article, my partner and I lit a four-wicked candle. Between prayers, we tasted wine, smelled fragrant cloves, and inspected our fingernails in the candles glow. We were celebrating havdalah, the brief Jewish ritual that separates the end of Shabbat, our holy day of rest, with the rest of the week. 

Much of Jewish religion celebrates the beauty of transitions: between sacred and secular, between clean and unclean, between one state of being and the next. Like havdalah, those transitions are often marked by ceremonies that are steeped in materiality: the sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch of things we find beautiful. 

One of our most powerful sites of transition is a ritual bath called the mikveh. Converts submerge themselves completely underneath the life-giving water and emerge as Jews. Orthodox women cleanse their bodies at the end of their menstrual cycle. Many immerse themselves in the water to mark other transitions: graduations, bnai mitzvahs, and healing from a long illness. Today, some trans...

Headcam Captures Skier Finding Snowboarder Stuck Head Down in the Snow and Saving His Life

 

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Rome and Pompeii will soon be connected with a direct high-speed train. The project is expected to be completed in 2024, said Italian Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano during a TV interview last week. Sangiuliano cited increased access to cultural heritage and economic growth as drivers for the new initiative.

The current journey from Rome to Pompeii takes around two hours and requires a transfer in Naples. The last segment of the trip is a scenic but time-consuming stretch along the Mediterranean Sea on a local train that makes frequent stops. The new rail line will avoid this final leg by adding Pompeii as a stop on an existing high-speed rail line that connects Sorrento, Naples, and Rome. Construction of the new Pompeii station is expected to cost some 35 million (~$38 million).

In 2021, Italy welcomed over...

The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) has announced Jova Lynne as its first artistic director, as first reported by Detroit news outlet DBusiness. Lynn arrived to the museum in 2017 as a Ford

BRIClab is now accepting applications for 2023/24! The deadline to apply is May 8.

This multi-disciplinary residency program in Brooklyn, New York, was created to advance opportunities for visual artists, performers, and media makers. BRIClab offers emerging-to-mid-career artists essential support and opportunities to share their work.

All residents receive a $2,500 stipend, mentorship, skills-based learning and professional development, and documentation of their work. Additional support in the form of funding, space, access to equipment and media classes, and other resources vary according to tracks. In-process public programs for the 2023/2024 cohort will take place from September 2023 through May 2024.

The programs four tracks are Contemporary Art, Film + TV,...

A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration at the Brooklyn Museum brings together 12 contemporary artists to consider the complex impact of this period on their lives, as well as on social and cultural life.

Between 1915 and 1970, in the wake of racial terror during the post-Reconstruction period, millions of Black Americans fled from their homes to other areas within the South and to other parts of the country. This remarkable movement of people, known as the...

NASA Reveals Astronauts Who Will Fly to the Moon Next Year

Artemis II crew portrait. From left: NASA Astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Jeremy Hansen. (Photo: NASA/Josh Valcarcel)

It's been more than 50 years since a human has flown to the Moon, but when NASA's Artemis II mission blasts off in 2024, four lucky astronauts will get this once-in-a-lifetime experience. The four-member crew includes three men and one woman, as well as the first non-U.S. citizen to make the voyage.

It was announced on Monday that NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch will make the trip along with astronaut Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency. This will be Wiseman, Glover, and Koch's second spaceflight. Wiseman, who is the Artemis II commander, previously spent more than 165 days in space, including almost 13 hours as lead spacewalker. He has also served as a flight engineer aboard the International Space Station.

Glover, who will serve as the Artemis II pilot, was the pilot on NASAs SpaceX Crew-1. He spent 168 days in space as part of the flight and also served as a flight engineer. Koch holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman with a total of 328 days in space and participated in the first all-female spacewalk.

While this is Hansen's first spaceflight, the Canadian astronaut has an incredible skill set. This colonel in the Canadian Armed Forces and former fighter pilot holds degrees in space science and physics and was the first Canadian entrusted with leading a NASA astronaut class.

I could not be prouder that these brave four will kickstart our journeys to the Moon and beyond, said Director of Flight Operations Norm Knight, NASA Johnson. They represent exactly what an astronaut corps should be: a mix of highly capable and accomplished individuals with the skills and determination to take on any trial as a team. The Artemis II mission will be challenging, and well test our limits as we prepare to put future astronauts on the Moon. With Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy at t...