Mapping the Gaps in NASA’s Return to the Moon, featuring Richard Spolzino
“I want to be able to look at a rocket launch and say, ‘I touched a piece of this.’” That’s how Richard Spolzino describes the thing he’s chasing. Not a title, not a specific mission, not even NASA itself, just the ability to point at something real and know his work made it possible. At NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, Spolzino works within Moon Base’s mission architecture and systems interoperability effort, helping identify what NASA still doesn’t know about the Moon and Mars, and making sure that missing information gets found before it becomes a problem. Aerospace engineer Richard Spolzino Credit: NASA “ For me, it kept coming back to where can I have the most impact? Where can my work touch the most things? “ From History to Aerospace Spolzino didn’t set out to end up here. He started college as a history major. He switched to a physics track at ...
