Sulphur High School Graduate Involved In NASA Artemis Mission

NASA’s Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, with the Orion capsule attached, launches at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on November 16, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

A Sulphur High School graduate is playing an important part in NASA's Artemis mission, which is headed for the moon.

Jeff Hampton is the lead software systems engineer on the Artemis I project.

The powerful rocket took off early Wednesday for a 26-day unmanned orbit of the moon.

It's part of an effort to return people to the lunar surface within a few years for the first time since the end of the Apollo program in 1972.