WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Sen. Maria Cantwell issued the following press release:
On Monday, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, toured two of the dozens of Washington state companies that are supplying NASA's Artemis Missions. The first crewed Artemis mission, Artemis II, is scheduled to launch Wednesday at 3:24pm PST.
"We're really proud that the state is playing such a big role in solving these space problems. Ultimately, Artemis is about returning to the moon and building a permanent moon base that can then be used for accelerating our travel to Mars. So [this is] a really, really big moment for the Pacific N...