Charlie Blackwell-Thompson was named NASA's first female launch director in 2016. But it wasn't until early this morning that her first mission – Artemis I – would take off from Kennedy Space Center for its journey to the moon.
of a series of"increasingly complex missions" to establish humanity on the moon, according to NASA.
"For once, I might be speechless," she told her team in the control room after the successful launch."...This is your moment." "It is not by chance that you are here today. ...You have earned your place in the room. You have earned this moment. You have earned your place in history," she said."...It doesn't come along very often – once in a career maybe, but we are all part of something incredibly special, the first launch of Artemis.
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