Frank Rubio’s Artemis III role and Cemaes School’s NASA badge project

NASA has assigned Frank Rubio a mission specialist role on Artemis III. The program is designed to test rendezvous and docking systems in low Earth orbit. NASA’s description identifies low Earth orbit as the setting for those tests and names rendezvous and docking systems as the focus. Rubio previously completed a 371-day stay at the International Space Station. He landed in Kazakhstan on September 27, 2023, after that stay. His Artemis III assignment is separate from that completed spaceflight record and identifies his role in the program. Cemaes School has a NASA connection through former pupil Dr Melanie Coathup. Separately, Isabel from Cemaes School designed a badge intended for a NASA space mission. The badge project is one documented part of the school’s connection with NASA. Together, the verified records describe Rubio’s time in orbit, his Artemis III assignment and the school’s space-related design project. They do not verify details of a meeting or a question-and-answer session involving the school and Rubio.