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NASA astronaut Christina Birch practices Orion spacecraft entry during an exercise with NASA and the U.S. Navy in February 2024, when she was still an astronaut candidate., which will send four other astronauts around the moon in September 2025 before coming back to Earth in the Pacific Ocean.
"It was an amazing learning opportunity for me to be out in the field," added Birch, a former cyclist with the U.S. national team whoon March 5. Working in groups, she said,"is something that I love to do — I love being immersed in the environment that we're working in."Birch, along with Canadian astronaut Jenni Gibbons, joined the four astronauts of Artemis 2 in a lengthy recovery exercise that, for some teams, spanned weeks of work in the Pacific last month.
Working alongside career Orion technicians, Birch said, means"asking the right questions, maybe bringing with it a fresh mindset." She will be supported in her role by fellow NASA astronaut Randy Bresnick, who has flown twice in space and currently manages developing and testing of all hardware for the Artemis program.
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