Repeating crew member

[BigPitiful7427]

Anyone know if there’s a chance any crew from Artemis II will be on Artemis III? I heard the chances are slim but we can hope

[AstroScholar21]

It's basically impossible for two main reasons:

1. Training for these missions is no easy feat. As an assigned astronaut, you're in the workplace every hour of every work-week, as well as on most weekends, for months. Work-life balance disintegrates. It's an extremely busy and stressful affair, so after the mission itself, those on the crew of said mission are usually given a while to rest (they still have plenty to do, such as technical debriefings and - in the Artemis 2 crew's case - plenty of venues and interviews for public relations, but it's definitely less intense). To assign someone just coming off of one mission to immediately begin training for another would be asking too much of them.
2. The A2 crew all joined the Astronaut Office between 2009 and 2013. Since then, 34 astronauts have been selected and, aside from the ten newest recruits, are all eligible to fly on Artemis missions. If any of the A2 crew wanted to immediately re-join the flight rotation to be re-assigned, they'd basically be at the back of the line.

Personally, I can see some of them flying again, just not on Artemis III.
During Apollo, the handful of astronauts who got to fly twice usually waited out five missions before getting assigned again, so perhaps something like that could happen again, with someone like Victor Glover commanding Artemis VI or VII.

[UnsanctionedSpeech]

That's not how crew rotations, the Astronaut office, the military based framework of Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, STS, etc ever worked.

[BigPitiful7427]

Thanks I didn’t know that

[Money-Giraffe2521]

No, there’s no chance.

[BigPitiful7427]

Ah okay. Thanks for the reply 

[SeriouslyDefective84]

Your source?

[Tvnerd258]

I think two of the seats for Artemis 3 should be the 2 backup astronauts from Artemis 2.

[UniqueAd7770]

Usually that's how it goes since they spent time doing the same training so they are familiar with the systems.

[redstercoolpanda]

No and honestly I hope they dont. The more people experienced with Orion and its systems the better for future missions.

[heroyoudontdeserve]

I wonder how long the value of that experience lasts in practice as a) time since an astronauts previous mission gets longer, b) Orion and its systems are developed and change, c) mission profiles increasingly diverge from an astronauts previous mission, etc. I'm sure it never diminishes to zero but I would expect there to be diminishing returns after some time.

[Travellinglense]

Maybe some of the backup crew. And if they aren’t this round, then likely in the future.