Staff Report

WARSAW — Companies across the U.S. and Europe and as close by as Warsaw and Columbia City are contributing to NASA’s mission to take Americans 238,900 miles back to the moon.

NASA representatives were in Indiana in late August to visit a handful of the nearly 20 Hoosier companies that are contributing work as suppliers toward Artemis, NASA’s ongoing project to take people back to the moon and also create a base there from which to launch to Mars.

NASA reps visited and said thanks to those at Major Tool & Machine and Imagineering Finishing Technologies, both in Indianapolis, and Manufacturing Technology Inc., South Bend.

Many other Hoosier companies are playing a role, too, as Artemis partners, working on everything from metal fabrication, machining and welding to research. Among them, according to a searchable map by NASA, are:

• Lake City Heat Treating Corp., Boeing Road, Warsaw
• 80/20 Inc., Columbia City
• Undersea Sensor Systems Inc., Columbia City
• Breyden Products Inc., Columbia City
• PEI Genesis Inc., South Bend
• Damping Technologies Inc., Mishawaka
• Dwyer Instruments Inc., Wolcott
• Purdue University, West Lafayette
• Lewellyn Technology LLC, Indianapolis
• Ingersoll, Indianapolis
• Liquid Transport LLC, Indianapolis
• General Devices Co. Inc., Indianapolis
• Precision Rings Inc., Indianapolis
• Aerodyn Engineering, Indianapolis
• BWXT Nuclear Operations, Mount Vernon