NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, Associate Administrator, Bob Cabana, and team, visited NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, Wednesday.
The team shared updates about NASA’s plan to go back to the Moon and then to Mars with the Artemis Mission. Nelson and team also met with several groups around the center for one-on-one discussions.
“We return to the Moon to stay,” said Administrator Nelson. “To learn and to live and to create. To do incredible science we can do nowhere else. To continue to build our Nation’s capabilities in space, creating positive effects on our economy, our security, and our daily lives. And we go on to inspire the Artemis Generation to extend human presence and exploration throughout the solar system – and beyond.”
California has more Artemis suppliers than any other U.S. state with 335 companies manufacturing pieces for upcoming space missions. NASA Armstrong continues to support space exploration in Southern California.
For more than a decade, NASA Armstrong has supported development and testing efforts for the Orion spacecraft and other key elements of NASA’s Artemis missions.
Recently, researchers at the center invented a space-rated Fiber Optic Sensing System, or FOSS, which uses fiber optics to collect temperature and strain information critical to space flight safety. This system flew on the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator, or LOFTID, mission.
