Cleveland engineer helped build NASA’s Artemis II moon mission NASA launches its first manned mission to the moon in more than 50 years on Wednesday, and a Cleveland engineer helped make it happen. CLEVELAND, Ohio - NASA launches its first manned mission to the moon in more than 50 years on Wednesday, and a Cleveland engineer helped make it happen. Darcy DeAngelis is a vehicle systems engineer at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. On Wednesday, she will watch Artemis II, the rocket she helped build, launch. “This is not only the culmination of my career, but of a lifelong dream,” DeAngelis said. “I think most people who work here were those kids that looked up at the skies with wonder.” If all goes to plan, four astronauts will fly around the moon, which is the first crew to do that in over 50 years.DeAngelis works in safety and mission assurance. Her job is to identify every possible risk before the rocket ever leaves the ground. “We analyzed any possible risks that might arise during the mission, and we figured out how to mitigate them — to make sure that the crew would come home safe and that the mission would be successful,” DeAngelis said. NASA Glenn’s fingerprints are all over this mission. The Cleveland center oversees the European Service Module, the system that powers and propels the spacecraft all the way to the moon and beyond.“It might be your friends, your neighbors, who are all part of this moon mission,” DeAngelis said. DeAngelis will be at Kennedy Space Center for Wednesday’s launch. She has touched the hardware. She has tested it. Now she watches it fly.Entire police department in Brown County placed on leave pending investigation‘We will miss her terribly’: Sports reporter, her 3 children and family dog found dead in house fireParents following school bus on field trip capture deadly collision on dashcam videoOhio City launches new Opening Day tradition with parade to Progressive FieldVandals cause over $100,000 in damage at Hall of Fame Village construction siteBody found in the Grand River in Painesville identified as missing man