Kennedy Space Center Director Janet Petro addresses Congressional guests inside the Vehicle Assembly Building on July 30, 2021. The visitors came to the Florida spaceport to view NASA’s stacked Space Launch System rocket, which is being prepared for the Artemis I launch. During this mission, Orion will fly farther than any spacecraft built for humans has ever flown. Under Artemis, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon and prepare for human missions to Mars.

Congressional Day at NASA Ames Research Center. Visitors move into Hyperwall theater for presenation by Steve Hipskind, Chief Ames Earth Science Division

Congressional Visit Tour/Town Hall

Congressional staff visited Goddard on March 10, 2017. They toured Science on a Sphere J. Garvin, B33 talk on ICESat-2 Dr. Kelly Brunt, Robotic Operations Center - Ben Reed, and JWST-Bill Ochs

During a visit to the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), the Congressional House Committee on Science and Astronautics toured the S-IVB workshop. Pictured here are MSFC’s Dr. Wernher von Braun (standing) and Congressman Miller, Democratic representative of California (sitting on the ergometer bicycle) inside the workshop.

The district directors of the Florida Congressional Delegation for the U.S House of Representatives and Senate pause for a photo in front of the Orion crew module during a tour of the high bay in the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 9, 2017. Orion is undergoing processing to prepare it for its first uncrewed integrated flight atop the Space Launch System rocket on Artemis I. Twelve directors attended the tour, including Sean Beaudet, constituent advocate for Senator Bill Nelson; Patrick Gavin, district director for Congressman Bill Posey; and Dale Ketcham, chief of Strategic Alliances for Space Florida.

Congressional staff delegates representing eight states (Alabama, California, Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York), along with NASA and U.S. Air Force representatives, tour the Thad Cochran Test Stand (B-2) at NASA Stennis on July 16. The visit provided an opportunity for the group to learn about propulsion test work carried out onsite by NASA and commercial companies.

U.S. Rep. Alan Nunnelee, R-Miss., visited Stennis Space Center on Oct. 5, meeting with leaders and touring facilities to learn about ongoing work at the south Mississippi site. Joining Nunnelee during a stop at the B-1/B-2 Test Stand were: (l to r) Ken Human, Stennis associate director; Randy Galloway, director of the Stennis Engineering and Test Directorate; Ted Maness, chief of staff for Nunnelee; Nunnelee's wife, Toni; Nunnelee; Myron Webb, Stennis legislative affairs officer; Gilbrech; and Meyer Seligman, legislative director for Nunnelee. A Tupelo native, Nunnelee serves Mississipi's 1st Congressional District.