(WFRV) – With lift-off just under 24 hours away for NASA’s Artemis II mission around the moon, excitement has built up across the nation, and one of the many people involved in the mission hails from northeast Wisconsin.
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Dr. Susan Lederer, a Planetary and Space Scientist at NASA, is one of the many people involved in the Artemis program as a lead project scientist for NASA’s Commercial Payload Services (CLPS) team.
Dr. Lederer grew up in Shawano before earning a bachelor’s of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, a master’s of Astronomy at New Mexico State and finally, a PhD in Astronomy at the University of Florida.
The University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire spoke to the 1992 alum, just days before the mission officially reaches liftoff on Wednesday.
“The whole purpose of CLPS is to manifest different types of payloads, instruments on landers that go to the moon to help us better understand the environment that astronauts will experience,” Dr. Lederer said in a story by UW-Eau Claire.
Dr. Lederer called the experience of working at NASA incredible.
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“It’s pretty incredible to be here now after starting in such a small town in northern Wisconsin,” Dr. Lederer said in a story by UW-Eau Claire. “I wish that my grandfather were still around to be able to see it.”
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