BATON ROUGE - A Southern University graduate had a hand in NASA's latest space mission. 

Shreveport native Jeremy Plater is an aerospace engineer and worked on the Artemis II, which is scheduled to take off on Wednesday afternoon. 

"Never count yourselves out. You never know where your journey may lead. You can be the next engineer making history," Plater said. 

Artemis II is a 10-day lunar flyby space mission. Space Launch System Program Manager John Honeycutt and Chief Engineer Dr. John Blevins describe the mission as “a practice run that will set the stage for future Artemis missions."