The first manned spaceflight to launch from the U.S. in six months will have a product of Colorado’s public schools as its commander.
Jessica Watkins, who grew up in Lafayette and graduated from Fairview High School in Boulder, is set to lead the mission to the International Space Station slated to launch Oct. 1. This will be Watkins’ second trip to space since being selected as an astronaut in 2017.
NASA has not sent a crew to space from the U.S. since the four astronauts who traveled around the moon on the Artemis II mission lifted off on April 1…