CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – As the world watched the leadup to the Artemis II launch on Wednesday at Cape Canaveral, Florida, some people in Clarksville were listening for a familiar voice: that of Rossview High School graduate Davis Hunter giving his team’s “go” for launch.
Hunter, who was born and raised in Clarksville, is the Space Launch System Engines-Propulsion Element Discipline lead engineer and the RS-25 Engine Systems Project Lead. Basically, he led one of the many NASA teams that launched the Artemis crew toward the moon.
“It was pretty amazing yesterday,” Hunter said Thursday morning in an interview with Kyle and Tiffany of the Q108 Morning Crew. “We’re just carrying through, reviewing all the data today; it looks so good. Extremely healthy systems, great performance, amazing launch.”
Artemis II mission to moon
The Artemis II crew will zip around the moon in an out-and-back slingshot. They include mission commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen. The four astronauts are the first to fly NASA’s Orion capsule, launching atop a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket from Kennedy Space Center…