{"689767":{"#nid":"689767","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"As astronauts head for a trip around the moon, Georgia Tech faculty and students look on","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs astronauts head toward the moon for the first time in decades, engineers and scientists at Georgia Tech are looking on with excitement. The current Artemis II mission is set to take four astronauts around the moon.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe previous Artemis mission in 2022 was unmanned, but researchers from Georgia Tech contributed to it. With this mission, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/welcome-future-artemis-ii-set-launch-moon\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech grads are involved\u003C\/a\u003E, including people who lead teams that worked on the launch and will recover the crew and the spacecraft from the Pacific Ocean when they return to Earth. [\u2026] Last year, Georgia Tech created its \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/space.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESpace Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E to pull together faculty, staff and students who work on space from different areas, including engineering, science and business.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs astronauts head toward the moon for the first time in decades, engineers and scientists at Georgia Tech are looking on with excitement. The current Artemis II mission is set to take four astronauts around the moon.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe previous Artemis mission in 2022 was unmanned, but researchers from Georgia Tech contributed to it. With this mission, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/welcome-future-artemis-ii-set-launch-moon\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech grads are involved\u003C\/a\u003E, including people who lead teams that worked on the launch and will recover the crew and the spacecraft from the Pacific Ocean when they return to Earth. [\u2026] Last year, Georgia Tech created its \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/space.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESpace Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E to pull together faculty, staff and students who work on space from different areas, including engineering, science and business.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-04-15 16:00:33","changed_gmt":"2026-04-16 13:41:41","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"NPR\/WABE","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wabe.org\/as-astronauts-head-for-a-trip-around-the-moon-ga-tech-faculty-and-students-look-on\/","dateline":{"date":"2026-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"192252","name":"cos-planetary"},{"id":"172511","name":"Frontiers Conference"},{"id":"190596","name":"space research"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}