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Artemis II astronaut on inspiration
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March 27, 2026
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1:05Now PlayingNASA astronaut Christina Koch spoke Friday about her inspirations as she prepares to travel around the moon as part of the Artemis II mission.
“I was inspired by things that made me feel small: the night sky, the vast ocean — I love sailing with my family — big mountains, anything that made me ponder the size of the universe,” she told reporters at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Ms. Koch, who will become the first woman to venture to the moon, also said she was inspired by leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, who she said “weren’t afraid to do what scared them.”
“I think about those people a lot when I’m in positions of having to work through fear, having to face things that are uncomfortable — and those are the people that inspired me growing up,” she said.
The Artemis II mission is set to launch on April 1, beginning a 10-day, roughly 600,000-mile journey around the moon and back to earth. It will be the first crewed moon mission in more than five decades.
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