Justine Kasznica Authors Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Article
A week before the launch of NASA’s Artemis II crewed lunar orbit mission, NASA unveiled plans to establish a permanent lunar base near the Moon’s south pole. NASA will invest $30 billion over the next decade. In her guest column in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Justine Kasznica discusses the need to sustain this vision in the region. With our PA-based firms and institutions and advantages in energy, this region brings a combination of strengths aligned with a lunar economy and is well-positioned to partner with NASA to build the infrastructure that could define the 21st and beyond. Companies like Astrobotic Technology are already contributing to NASA’s lunar ambitions through landers, delivery systems, and lunar power technologies, and other Pennsylvania-based firms, including Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Ansys, and Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. are leaders in space nuclear technologies, computing and simulation, and thermal technologies respectively. To read the full article, click here.