Ohio has helped lead America into space. Twenty-five astronauts have come from the state, and behind the scenes, NASA's Glenn Research Center engineers, scientists and staff have become prolific inventors, playing roles in famous missions like Mercury, Apollo and the Mars rover missions.
Now, the Glenn Research Center is contributing to NASA's Artemis program, which is slated to run into the 2030s, by training the next generation of engineers and scientists from Ohio high schools through its STEM Engagement programs, such as the High School Engineering Institute and the High School Capstone program.
"We're working on our ambitious mission to send humans back to the moon through Artemis [program] and eventually take that to the next step of sending astronauts on to Mars," says Catherine G