{"id":135772,"date":"2023-06-14T14:07:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T18:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772//?p=135772"},"modified":"2024-08-22T14:53:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T18:53:25","slug":"ucf-alums-working-on-artemis-2-why-the-space-program-is-personal-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772//ucf-alums-working-on-artemis-2-why-the-space-program-is-personal-to-us/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772//","title":{"rendered":"UCF Alums Working on Artemis 2: Why the Space Program is Personal to Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you were to parachute into the parking lots around Kennedy Space Center (KSC), you might believe you landed on an extension 色花堂/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772/u2019s campus. Knights license plates and black-and-gold decals are everywhere./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772/u201cYou should see it here during football season,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772/u201d says Wes Mosedale /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772/u201807MS, senior test director for NASA. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772/u201cThat/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772/u2019s when the colors really come out./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772/n

The UCF logos at KSC are symbolic of deeper connections: between the university and the space program, between the past and the future, between Earth and outer space, and between the Apollo missions that sent men to the moon for the first time and the Artemis 2 mission that will send men and women to the moon at the end of 2024./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772/u201cThere/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772/u2019s a lot of work to do between now and then,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772/u201d Mosedale says./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772/n

These three UCF alumni are taking it one day and one task at a time. For them, Artemis 2 is as personal as it is historic./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135772/n