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(L-R) Rick LaBrode, lead Artemis I flight director, speaks while Judd Frieling, Artemis I ascent/entry flight director, Debbie Korth, Orion Program deputy manager, and Reid Wiseman, chief astronaut, listen at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on August 5, 2022. – Rick LaBrode has worked at NASA for 37 years, but he says the American quest to return to the Moon is by far the crowning moment of his career. LaBrode is the lead flight director for Artemis 1, set to take off later this month — the first time a capsule that can carry humans will be sent to the Moon since the last Apollo mission in 1972.

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