EAST AURORA, N.Y. — History was made at Kennedy Space Center this week — and Western New York was part of it.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Artemis II rocket successfully launched on Wednesday, and inside that rocket is hardware built in Western New York. Moog Inc. has been quietly powering American spaceflight for decades, and their fingerprints are all over the most powerful rocket NASA has ever built.
The East Aurora-based company supplies thrust vector control actuators, the components that steer the rocket from the moment it leaves the launch pad to the moment it reaches orbit. Wednesday’s launch did not just test the rocket, it tested years of work by Moog’s engineers, technicians and supply chain teams in Western New York…