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Hard Work and Talent Lead to Dream Job at Boeing

Boeing SLS Engineer: From Poverty to Artemis Leader. Boeing's Amanda Gertjejansen: LSU intern to Space Launch System team lead for NASA Artemis. Discover her path at SpaceFoundation.org.

Boeing SLS engineer career Amanda Gertjejansen went to college with a single goal: Make more than her mother — enough to put poverty in the past. Now she’s on a rocket ride, managing a Boeing integrated product team overseeing the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage. Amanda Gertjejansen Boeing At Louisiana State University, Gertjejansen studied…

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Artemis II’s Slow Crawl to the Moon: Inside the 8-Hour Journey to Launch

Learn how NASA's Crawler-Transporter 2 moves the Artemis II rocket to Launch Pad 39B — and why a helium issue sent it back to the VAB.

Update: Amentum’s Breanne Rohloff and her big rig got an extra workout Feb. 25, when NASA engineers decided to roll the Artemis II back to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center to diagnose a helium flow issue in the launch vehicle’s upper stage. She will get the long drive back on the crawler…

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