{"686236":{"#nid":"686236","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Back to the Moon and Beyond","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor generations of scientists, engineers, and other NASA personnel, including many who were not yet alive in 1969, the Apollo Moon landing was a watershed moment\u2014the first steppingstone of space exploration. So in 2017, when the agency announced that after 45 years the Artemis program would finally return humans to the lunar surface, many people working at NASA were elated.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe were finally doing what everyone wanted to do,\u201d says Liliana Villarreal, AE 96, MS AE 97, who had helped process payloads for shuttle delivery to the International Space Station before being tapped as director of the Artemis II landing and recovery at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center. \u201cOur team has always been thinking of going farther. That\u2019s our driving ambition, our human instinct for exploration.\u201d\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtalumni.org\/news\/2025\/back-to-the-moon-and-beyond.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead the full story on the Georgia Tech Alumni Association\u0027s website\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/news\/2025\/10\/low-frequency-radio-lab-trio-go-alaska-atmospheric-research\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech alumni are helping NASA write the next chapter of lunar exploration. From leading crew recovery for Artemis II to developing technology that searches for water beneath the Moon\u2019s surface, Yellow Jackets are driving the effort to make human life sustainable beyond Earth.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Yellow Jackets are playing key roles to help NASA take us back to the Moon\u2014leading Artemis missions, building new space technologies, and laying the groundwork for life beyond Earth."}],"uid":"36757","created_gmt":"2025-11-05 21:29:39","changed_gmt":"2025-11-05 21:31:10","author":"ychernet3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-11-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-11-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"678555":{"id":"678555","type":"image","title":"Back to the Moon and Beyond","body":null,"created":"1762377974","gmt_created":"2025-11-05 21:26:14","changed":"1762378169","gmt_changed":"2025-11-05 21:29:29","alt":"NASA\u0027s Lunar Gateway space station orbiting the moon","file":{"fid":"262607","name":"FEA_1_moon_gateway_nasa.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/11\/05\/FEA_1_moon_gateway_nasa.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/11\/05\/FEA_1_moon_gateway_nasa.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":929478,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/11\/05\/FEA_1_moon_gateway_nasa.jpg?itok=OpmYgRqn"}}},"media_ids":["678555"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"660370","name":"Space"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETony Rehagen\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}