WTNH News 8 reports that NASA is looking to Connecticut manufacturers to join space projects. “NASA is going back to the moon, and it is looking for help from Connecticut manufacturers. NASA and its prime contractors are looking for local partners in their ambitious space exploration projects.
“NASA’s not building all this themselves. We need businesses just like you,” said Dr. Sharon Cobb, a NASA Associate Program Manager. “There’s a number of you who are already involved in the Artemis program.”
She said that to dozens of Connecticut companies gathered at the University of Hartford to hear what role they can play in things like the Artemis mission. In about a year, Artemis II will put four astronauts in orbit around the moon. In the following years, they hope to land and build permanent structures on the moon, put a space station in moon orbit and more.”