Exciting news from Rochester: RIT alumni train Artemis II astronauts in photography
NASA image provided by Paul Reichert
Paul Reichert ’01, left, said that they try to get cameras into the hands of astronauts as much as possible before the launch. Here, he trains astronauts Christina Koch and Victor Glover on how to take pictures of the moon during the lunar flyby on the Artemis 2 mission.
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The four astronauts on NASA’s Artemis II mission that launched April 1 are well equipped to document their journey around the moon because of training from RIT alumni.
Katrina Willoughby ’04 and Paul Reichert ’01—graduates of RIT’s imaging and photographic technology program, now known as photographic sciences—are flight operations imagery instructors who gave the astronauts training in photography techniques at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Read the whole article published on the RIT news web section HERE
