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Margarita Sampson thoughtfully gazes off into the distance as she sits in the lobby of Building 1 at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Behind her are two pieces of text. The first says, "Dare Unite Explore" in a circle above "Johnson Space Center." The second says, "We DARE to expand frontiers. We UNITE with our partners to complete bold missions and we EXPLORE space for the benefit of humankind."

Branch Chief Margarita Sampson

“I read [‘The Last Man on the Moon’] by Gene Cernan, and he was describing how he felt looking at the Earth from the surface of the Moon. I was like, ‘Yeah, there’s something there.’… I feel like we go to space not to learn more about space but to learn more about ourselves.” — Margarita Sampson, Branch Chief, NASA's Johnson Space Center

Image Credit: NASA / William Stafford

TakenAugust 23, 2023

Image CreditNASA / William Stafford

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