Artemis II Mission Manager Matthew Ramsey played for Mississippi State in the early 1990s as a pitcher before leaving the team to pursue his engineering education.
Ramsey, a Hernando native, graduated from MSU with a 1992 bachelor’s and 1993 master’s degree in aerospace engineering. He joined NASA in 2002, where he has been for more than two decades on guidance and navigation systems, the Ares I and V rockets, and now the Space Launch System Program for the Artemis missions.
Per a 2024 interview for an article on NASA’s site, Ramsey said, “There are a lot of similarities between mission management and pitching,” he said. “You control many aspects of the tempo, and there’s a lot of weight on your shoulders.”
Another MSU alum, Parker Glass, worked on the project for NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems, overseeing the budget development and allocation for the launch. Glass is a 2018 graduate from MSU, and he later earned a Master of Business Administration degree in 2022.
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