i’ve been very lucky to work on a fundraising campaign for CalTech over the past few years - consisting of portraits of students, alumni, professors and others associated with the institution. vicariously, it was an immense, nerdy thrill. back in 2016 one of our subjects was planetary geologist jessica watkins. at the time i believe she had just been accepted into the astronaut training program. with no missions in mind at that point we were all still very excited at the prospect of even being near someone who might go to space.
it was just announced that jessica had been selected to be part of the artemis mission, projected to go to the moon in 2024. congratulations, jessica! you probably don’t remember doing this shoot, but it’d be great if you could bring me back a moon rock, anyway.
