I Am Artemis: Erik Richards
27 Mar 2026, 21:30 GMT
By Korine Powers
Topic: I Am Artemis
Source URL: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/i-am-artemis/i-am-artemis-erik-richards/
Listen to this audio excerpt from Erik Richards, Near Space Network Mission Manager: For Erik Richards, supporting NASA’s first crewed Artemis mission to the Moon and back is the culmination of a career spent helping spacecraft communicate with Earth. Like many kids who grew up at the height of the Space Shuttle Program, Richards dreamed of spaceflight — a dream that eventually took him from the remote McMurdo Station in Antarctica to