I Am Artemis: Erik Richards

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A man in a blue NASA polo shirt stands with arms crossed in front of two large satellite dish antennas at a desert ground station under a partly cloudy sky.
Erik Richards, mission manager for NASA's Near Space Network, stands in front of the large antennas at the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico.
Credits: NASA
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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 NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

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