Three-time NC State graduate Christina Koch and her three Artemis II crewmates will blast off to the moon as early as Wednesday evening. Koch is a modern-day frontier explorer, using her North Carolina public school education and more than a decade of NASA training to go well beyond the bounds of Earth and into the heavens.
She will see parts of the solar system no human has ever seen before.
She will go where no woman, and very few men, have ever been, some 250,000 miles into the heavens and 6,000 miles beyond the far side of the moon.
She will hear the cheers, not just of her fellow NC State community but of a nation and a world eager for proof that, through science and engineering, a divided planet can unite for accomplishment and curiosity.
When she returns, she’ll tell stories that make the farther reaches of the solar system real and tangible to the bright eyes and eager ears inspired by her journey.
