I Am Artemis: Daniel Stubbs
4 Min Read I Am Artemis: Daniel Stubbs Listen to this audio excerpt from Daniel Stubbs, NASA aerospace engineer: 0:00 / 0:00 Your browser does not support the audio element. If you’ve driven through a cloud of dust and dirt that temporarily obscured your view, you’ve gotten a partial picture of a potential problem that NASA’s human landing systems for Artemis will face when they land on the Moon. Daniel Stubbs, an aerospace engineer with the Plume and Aero Environments team i
NASA aerospace engineer Daniel Stubbs is working to understand how rocket exhaust plumes will interact with the lunar surface during the Artemis missions. His research focuses on modeling the behavior of lunar regolith, a fine, abrasive dust, when disturbed by landing spacecraft. This is crucial because the regolith can obscure visibility and potentially damage equipment, posing risks to astronauts and mission success.
Stubbs's work builds upon lessons learned from the Apollo missions, where lunar dust proved problematic. The new human landing systems for Artemis are larger and more complex than their predecessors, requiring a deeper understanding of these plume-surface interactions to ensure safe landings and successful ascents back to lunar orbit.
Understanding how lunar dust behaves during landings is essential for the safety of astronauts and the success of NASA's ambitious Artemis program to return humans to the Moon.
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