March 17, 2025
NASA is heading again to the state capitol in March for Area Day Texas, a recognition of achievements all through Texas and a look forward to the influence future human house exploration has on the Lone Star state.
The 2-day schedule of occasions and reveals specializing in exploration, astronauts, and science, expertise, engineering, and math training will embody astronaut visits, interactive reveals, and legislative proclamations.
NASA’s Johnson Area Middle in Houston will share its accomplishments on the Capitol grounds from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. CDT Tuesday, March 25, becoming a member of educational and industrial companions from throughout the state to share Texas’ blueprint for increasing humanity’s frontier in house.
On Monday, March 24, reveals will function the Texas Excessive College Aerospace Students program on the College of Texas Elementary Constitution college, together with NASA Johnson’s Workplace of STEM Engagement, Orion program, and Lockheed Martin. Interactive occasions will function NASA STEM engagement applications and hands-on reveals.
At 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 25, proclamations celebrating NASA’s twenty fifth anniversary of steady human presence on the Worldwide Area Station, the Excessive College Aerospace Students program, and the continued development of the Artemis marketing campaign by way of NASA’s commercialization of cargo, crew, landers, spacesuits, and rovers can be learn within the Texas Home and Senate chambers, respectively. Following the proclamations, an Artemis II crew astronaut will take part in a dwell query and reply session on the entrance steps of the Capitol.
NASA’s influence in Texas is powerful. NASA Johnson has served as the enduring website for a few of the best moments in American historical past, from touchdown people on the Moon to assembling the Worldwide Area Station.
For greater than 60 years, NASA has led the world in human house exploration. Immediately, it’s testing applied sciences on the Area Station that may assist humanity push ahead to the Moon and Mars. NASA’s workforce in Texas consists of greater than 10,000 aerospace staff and greater than $2 billion in contracts and federal salaries in 2024.
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Kelly Humphries
Johnson Area Middle, Houston
281-483-5111
