SJR41 Summary

• Proclaims February 23, 2022, as NASA Day in the State of Alabama.

• Recognizes NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center for generating $4.3 billion in economic impact and supporting more than 24,000 jobs across Alabama.

• Credits Marshall Space Flight Center with advancing science and rocket propulsion technology over six decades, including contributions to moon missions and major space projects including the Space Launch System, International Space Station, Hubble Space Telescope, and James Webb Telescope.

• Honors seven Alabama-born NASA astronauts (Clifton Williams, Henry Hartsfield, Kathy Thornton, James Voss, Mae Jemison, Jan Davis, and Kathryn Hire) who spent over 320 days in space across 18 Space Shuttle flights, including Mae Jemison as the first female African American in space.

• Senate adopted February 16, 2022; House adopted February 22, 2022.