In two weeks, NASA could send its first crewed mission to the moon in 53 years. Rolling back out to the pad at Cape Kennedy, the 322-foot Artemis II rocket is a bit shorter than the Saturn V ship that carried three astronauts around the moon in 1968. The new mission, which will loop the moon without slowing into orbit, is a bit less ambitious than Apollo 8’s mission back then.
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“We really think that Colorado is at an inflection point,” Rachel Beck, executive director of the Colorado Chamber Foundation, told The Denver Gazette. She chaired Monday’s speaker forum.
“I’ve worked in economic development and policy for 25 years, and it used to be that we could just kind of rest on our laurels,” Beck said. “We didn’t have to do a whole lot actively.”
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