As NASA’s Artemis II thundered off the pad yesterday, Stockton native José Hernández was thousands of miles from the launch site but firmly in the national conversation. The former farmworker turned space shuttle astronaut used the moment to hammer home a theme he knows well: persistence and science education can rewrite a life story. On launch day, Hernández spent his time with students and community groups in the Central Valley, retelling his journey while the rest of the country watched humans head back toward the moon.
Artemis II Soars Around the Moon
The Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on April 1, sending four astronauts on a roughly 10-day lunar flyby, according to NASA. The launch and the early…..