A spacesuit prototype of what NASA astronauts, including the first woman, plan to wear on the surface of the Moon during the agency’s Artemis III mission, was revealed Wednesday at Space Center Houston.

When NASA launched the Artemis I mission early Wednesday morning, it was something people had waited weeks, months, years, and even decades to see happen. The flight is unmanned, but it marks a milestone in the work being done to return humans to the moon for the first time since the Apollo missions.

Houston Newsmakers: Johnson Space Center Director embraces new role; ‘Artemis’ moon program nears starting line

NASA announced this week new leadership taking over both Johnson Space Center here in Houston and at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

HOUSTON – Vanessa Wyche is using her exemplary career at NASA to teach Houston students that they too can have amazing careers in science and technology, no matter where they grew up. Wyche works as the director of exploration, innovation and science at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, and has spent her entire life pursuing her love of science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. "My brother got a chemistry set one Christmas, and so my brother and I did experiments in the backyard,” Wyche said. She currently assists in planning and creating technology for future space missions, including a prospective mission to Mars. She meets with elementary, middle and high school students to promote science and to discuss her work at NASA.