Alora Mazarakis has had a passion for outer space since childhood, but for years she considered it a "mystical career." Her experience with River City Rocketry finally revealed a path forward. Two years after graduating from Speed School with her degree in electrical and computer engineering, Alora achieved her dream of becoming a NASA engineer. Now, she's working on the Artemis program, a series of increasingly complex missions that will culminate in sending humans to the moon for the first time since 1972. Artemis I, the first of those missions, launched on November 16th, 2022.
"It's almost like a day that you feel will never come," Alora said of the launch. "Just to feel the rumble and to see the the the boosters ignite ... it really brings a tear to your eye."
