Dozens of Ohio companies boosting new moonshot, NASA leader says
America won’t return to the moon without Ohio know-how and ingenuity, NASA’s deputy administrator said at the third annual Ohio Space Forum.
“Ohio is going to the moon with us, this year,” Pamela Melroy, NASA deputy administrator, told listeners at the NASA Glenn Research Center near Cleveland May 18.
NASA leaders like to talk numbers, and Melroy shared plenty of them.
Here are a few: There are 62 Ohio companies “providing critical support directly to Artemis,” NASA’s new moonshot, Melroy said.
Twenty-seven Ohio companies are supplying NASA’s ground systems exploration program, the ground equipment needed to launch the big moon rocket.
Two Ohio companies are supporting the human landing system to take people to the moon’s surface.