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As NASA’s Artemis program advances following its first crewed mission to the moon April 10, former astronaut Bonnie Dunbar sees it as the latest step in a long legacy of human spaceflight that includes Apollo, the space shuttle program and the International Space Station.

Texas A&M University leaders, state officials and industry partners gathered at the university’s RELLIS campus on April 9 to break ground on the Texas A&M Semiconductor Institute. It’s a project worth more than $200 million, designed to expand training, manufacturing and domestic research on computer chips, which powers computers, phones and cars, among other technology.