Hernando native leads NASA's Artemis II moon mission

Hernando native leads NASA's Artemis II moon mission

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A Hernando, Mississippi native, who once pitched for the Mississippi State University baseball team, is the mission manager for Artemis II spaceflight around the Moon. NASA said Matthew Ramsey's job is ensuring the agency’s missions to the Moon are safe and successful. “There are a lot of similarities between mission management and pitching,” [...]

Former MSU pitcher oversees Artemis launch as mission manager

Artemis II Mission Manager Matthew Ramsey played for Mississippi State in the early 1990s as a pitcher before leaving the team to pursue his engineering education. Ramsey, a Hernando native, graduated from MSU with a 1992 bachelor’s and 1993 master’s degree in aerospace engineering. He joined NASA in 2002, where he has been for more than two decades on guidance and navigation systems, the Ares I and V rockets, and now the Space Launch System Pro…