Listen to this audio excerpt from Erik Richards, Near Space Network Mission Manager: For Erik Richards, supporting NASA’s first crewed Artemis mission to the Moon and back is the culmination of a career spent helping spacecraft communicate with Earth. Like many kids who grew up at the height of the Space Shuttle Program, Richards dreamed of spaceflight — a dream that eventually took him from the remote McMurdo Station in Antarctica to […]
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I Am Artemis, Artemis 2, Communicating and Navigating with Missions, Goddard Space Flight Center, Space Communications & Navigation Program
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March 27, 2026
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I Am Artemis: Erik Richards
March 27, 2026