Western Branch High School graduate Dr. Andre Douglas is among the four astronauts revealed by NASA for the Artemis III mission as a mission specialist on Tuesday.
Along with Douglas, the crew will be comprised of NASA’s Randy Bresnik, Frank Rubio, and the European Space Agency’s Luca Parmitano. The Artemis III won’t fly to the moon or land on the surface. Instead, they’ll orbit Earth while practicing docking their Orion capsule with two lunar landers.
At the time of Douglas’s selection, he was a NASA astronaut candidate and had also held a senior position at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab supporting planetary defense, space exploration, maritime robotics, and ocean system missions. While engineering at APL, Douglas assisted in the development of NASA’s DART planetary defense mission with the fault management team and several other NASA projects.
Douglas was also apart of the Artemis II test flight backup crew, NASA’s first crewed mission under the Artemis campaign…