Live Stream
This Edison Lecture will feature a presentation and Q&A session from Kelsey Young, Artemis II Lunar Science Lead and Artemis Science Flight Operations Lead. Young’s presentation, “Artemis Lunar Science: Artemis II and the new era of crewed lunar science operations,” will touch on the Artemis program, her role in the Artemis II mission, and her career.
Kelsey Young, NASA
A 2009 alumna of the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering, Young is one of NASA’s first science officers. While science operations have long been integrated into human space flights, the Artemis program was the first to dedicate specific positions to embedding scientific objectives into mission operations.
Young served as senior flight controller—a ground-based mission manager—responsible for lunar science and geology objectives during the recently completed Artemis II mission. To prepare, she and fellow officers completed months of flight controller training, testing, and certification simulations in Mission Control—NASA’s centralized command post for human spaceflight. Together with the Artemis II Lunar Science Team, Young spent years preparing astronauts with training expeditions to Earth’s most Moon-like landscapes, enabling Artemis II astronauts to function effectively as lunar geologists.
Clive Neal, a lunar scientist and professor of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences at the University of Notre Dame, will moderate the event.
This event is free and open to the public. We invite students, faculty, staff and members of the community to attend. No tickets are required.