JOPLIN, Mo. — An area company’s success is literally out of this world. But they need your help promoting their products outside the Joplin area.
It would be accurate to say that Eagle Picher Technologies of Joplin has the Red Planet covered, both on and above its surface.
“We have vehicles that orbit Mars for communication, we have landers on the surface and then all four rovers that are on the surface of Mars, we provided the power for all those,” said Ron Nowlin, Senior V.P. Aerospace Systems, Eagle Picher.
And while many of us in the Four State area are aware of the huge role the company has played since the very start of the U.S. Space Program, which continues to this day, outside of the area are still learning about it.
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“When that vehicle landed on the surface of Mars we had an employee…