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llmart

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4. There are still plenty of those people at NASA.

Reply to 3825-87867 (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 3, 2026, 01:23 PM

Feb 3

No need to paint everyone with a broad brush. Artemis II is expected to launch this week if the weather at Kennedy Space Center cooperates. The launch has been pushed back two days because of the cold temps. My son is a NASA engineer on the Artemis program and they've been working almost around the clock in making sure everything goes AOK.

A crew of four astronauts will orbit the moon, but not only "man". It's a crew of four including one woman, and the launch director for Artemis is the first woman to hold that honor. The amount of education and experience and genius level intellect at NASA is amazing.

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