Extract from Amanda Sabia’s article “Making Space: How Leaders Lift Others in Legal Tech”
When the Artemis II mission launched humans out of near-earth orbit on April 1, 2026, I was hooked (‘97 Space Camp alumna here).
The Artemis II mission wasn’t about setting foot on the moon—it was about gathering large volumes of data at rates 100,000 times faster than Apollo-era missions, performing rapid data interpretation, and responding to the implications of that data in real time. Sounds familiar, right?
The mission delivered so many impactful moments, including the deep sigh of relief on launch, the splash back to Earth, Commander Wiseman naming a moon crater in honor of his late wife Carroll, and the photo of our beautiful planet available to earth-dwellers almost in real time.
A core memory for me, however, are the photos of the NASA team who stayed footed here on planet Earth. I instantly noticed something specific: a large number of women (you might even call them stellar women) compared to prior space missions.
