“From an early age, I wanted to be an astronaut. I remember going to Kennedy Space Center Visitor Center when I was 7 on a family trip, and we got to see the rockets in the Rocket Garden and learn all about the Moon landings. I had no idea that humanity had ever been in space, much less landed on the Moon. When my family moved from Colombia to the United States when I was 10 years old, I remember thinking, ‘Maybe I have an opportunity to work in the space industry when I get older now that I live here.’⁣” ⁣ As the #Artemis landing and recovery director at NASAKennedy Space Center, Liliana Villarreal is responsible for recovering the astronauts from the Pacific Ocean after the Artemis II mission to the Moon and back.⁣ ⁣ Image description: Liliana Villarreal stands in front of the Crew Module Test Article (CMTA) at the turn basin in the Launch Complex 39 area at NASAKennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 1, 2023. The CMTA is used to practice recovery after splashdown of the Orion spacec...