Artemis science officer, Angela Garcia, stands at the new SCIENCE console in the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credits: NASA/Josh Valcarcel

jsc2026e396785 (June 25, 2026) - NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman asks questions of Angela Garcia, Artemis II Science Officer, during an Artemis II employee celebration event at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Credit: NASA

Artemis science officers, from left, Kelsey Young, Trevor Graff, and Angela Garcia stand at the new SCIENCE console in the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credits: NASA/Josh Valcarcel

Angela Garcia, Artemis II science officer and exploration geologist, demonstrates how to use a rock hammer and chisel to dislodge a rock sample from a large boulder during the Artemis II field geology training in Iceland.

Test deputy field manager Angela Garcia ties down a tent that will serve as the base camp for the Joint Extravehicular Activity and Human Surface Mobility Test Team Field Test 5 (JETT5) in the San Francisco Volcanic Field in Northern Arizona on May 11, 2024. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel

Artemis science officer, Angela Garcia, left and lunar science team member, Kiarre Dumes discuss science operations in the Science Evaluation Room (SER) in Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The SER supports lunar science and planetary observations for the Artemis science officer in the mission’s main flight control room. Dumes serves as the SERCOMM, or Science Evaluation Room Communicator, acting as the singular voice from the science team in the back room, reporting to the science officer. Credits: NASA/Luna Posadas Nava

The Artemis II crew astronauts, their backups, and the geology training field team pose in a valley in Iceland’s Vatnajökull national park. From front left: Angela Garcia, Jacob Richardson, Cindy Evans, Jenni Gibbons, Jacki Mahaffey, back row from left: Jeremy Hansen, John Ramsey, Reid Wiseman, Ron Spencer, Scott Wray, Kelsey Young, Patrick Whelley, Christina Koch, Andre Douglas, Jacki Kagey, Victor Glover, Rick Rochelle (NOLS), Trevor Graff.

Artemis II science officers, from left, Trevor Graff, Kelsey Young, and Angela Garcia, are seen at the Science console in the White Flight Control Room in Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Science officers are the senior flight controllers responsible for lunar science and geology objectives during Artemis missions. Credits: NASA/Robert Markowitz

jsc2025e067512 --- Artemis II science officers Kelsey Young, left, and Angela Garcia sit at the SCIENCE console during a training simulation in the White Flight Control Room of the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Artemis II will test mission science operations and integration into flight control. Lessons learned during Artemis II science operations will pave the way for lunar science operations for future Artemis missions. A team of experts will staff the Science Evaluation Room (SER) at Johnson, providing lunar scientific expertise, data analysis, and strategic guidance in real-time to the science officer and the rest of Mission Control.

jsc2026e020490 (April 6, 2026) - Pictured from left to right, Angela Garcia, Dr. Kelsey Young, and Dr. Trevor Graff, the first science officers of the Artemis program in the White Flight Control Room in the Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Seen here about ten minutes before Earthset during Artemis II, these science officers are seen monitoring mission data in real-time from the Science console. They support flight controllers by analyzing scientific measurements and system performance. Their work helps ensure mission objectives are achieved safely and efficiently. Credit: NASA

Exploration geologists and Artemis science officers Trevor Graff, left, and Angela Garcia carry out a lunar training development run at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) in Houston. The NBL is a 40-foot deep pool at NASA’s Johnson Space Center where astronauts train for spacewalks in a neutrally buoyant environment. During the session, Garcia and Graff conducted tests of Artemis geology tools and deployed a mock lunar payload under low-angle lighting conditions similar to what astronauts will encounter at the Moon’s south pole. A section of the NBL, which contains full-scale mockups of the International Space Station modules, has been transformed into a lunar training area with soil and rocks that mimic the Moon’s landscape. This testing run marked the first time in the Artemis program that two geologists were suited up simultaneously for lunar geology training in the NBL. The team is using insights from these tests to build the training program for astronauts assigned to future landed missions on the Moon. Credit: NASA

Exploration geologists and Artemis science officers Trevor Graff, left, and Angela Garcia carry out a lunar training development run at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) in Houston. The NBL is a 40-foot deep pool at NASA’s Johnson Space Center where astronauts train for spacewalks in a neutrally buoyant environment. During the session, Garcia and Graff conducted tests of Artemis geology tools and deployed a mock lunar payload under low-angle lighting conditions similar to what astronauts will encounter at the Moon’s south pole. A section of the NBL, which contains full-scale mockups of the International Space Station modules, has been transformed into a lunar training area with soil and rocks that mimic the Moon’s landscape. This testing run marked the first time in the Artemis program that two geologists were suited up simultaneously for lunar geology training in the NBL. The team is using insights from these tests to build the training program for astronauts assigned to future landed missions on the Moon. Credit: NASA

Exploration geologist and Artemis science officer Angela Garcia carries out a lunar training development run at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) in Houston. The NBL is a 40-foot deep pool at NASA’s Johnson Space Center where astronauts train for spacewalks in a neutrally buoyant environment. During the session, Garcia and fellow exploration geologist and Artemis science officer Trevor Graff conducted tests of Artemis geology tools and deployed a mock lunar payload under low-angle lighting conditions similar to what astronauts will encounter at the Moon’s south pole. A section of the NBL, which contains full-scale mockups of the International Space Station modules, has been transformed into a lunar training area with soil and rocks that mimic the Moon’s landscape. This testing run marked the first time in the Artemis program that two geologists were suited up simultaneously for lunar geology training in the NBL. The team is using insights from these tests to build the training program for astronauts assigned to future landed missions on the Moon. Credit: NASA

Exploration geologists and Artemis science officers Trevor Graff, left, and Angela Garcia carry out a lunar training development run at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) in Houston. The NBL is a 40-foot deep pool at NASA’s Johnson Space Center where astronauts train for spacewalks in a neutrally buoyant environment. During the session, Garcia and Graff conducted tests of Artemis geology tools and deployed a mock lunar payload under low-angle lighting conditions similar to what astronauts will encounter at the Moon’s south pole. A section of the NBL, which contains full-scale mockups of the International Space Station modules, has been transformed into a lunar training area with soil and rocks that mimic the Moon’s landscape. This testing run marked the first time in the Artemis program that two geologists were suited up simultaneously for lunar geology training in the NBL. The team is using insights from these tests to build the training program for astronauts assigned to future landed missions on the Moon. Credit: NASA

Artemis science officers, from left, Angela Garcia and Kelsey Young, watch the lunar science team celebrating in the Science Evaluation Room (SER) as they hear lunar observations from the Artemis II crew. The science team has spent years training the astronauts in geology and observation, both in the classroom and in the field. They also built the lunar targeting plan that, like a spacewalk plan, provides strong, detailed observation guidance, plus flexibility for the crew to make decisions based on what they’re seeing and experiencing in real time. The science team had many moments of celebration during the lunar flyby as the astronauts took pictures of the Moon and provided verbal descriptions of what they were seeing. This type of information reveals the geologic history of an area and will be critical to collect when future Artemis astronauts explore the Moon's surface. Credits: NASA/Robert Markowitz