These New Mexico companies played a role in NASA's Artemis mission

NASA's Artemis 1 mission concluded Sunday when the agency's Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. It's the first mission of a much larger NASA program to put humans back on the moon by 2024 — a program that several New Mexico-based companies supported. One of those is Metis Technology Solutions. Joy Colucci, a former NASA executive and 2022 Business First Women of Influence honoree, founded Metis in 2011. She relocated her company to Albuquerque in 2014 and it has since grown to…