RAVENSWOOD – Jim Justice, West Virginia’s junior U.S. senator, has often referred to the state’s economic potential as a “rocket ship ride,” but Wednesday he paid tribute to the men and women who are making the nation’s return to the moon possible. Justice made his first visit to the Constellium Rolled Products Ravenswood plant Wednesday morning, along with his English bulldog Babydog, to celebrate the facility’s contributions to NASA’s Artemis space program. Speaking to a room full of plant employees, Justice said “exciting” would not adequately describe the accomplishments of the Constellium team. “That’s the understatement of all time. It’s amazing,” Justice said. “You give us in so many ways, dignity and excellence and craftsmanship and intelligence. You give us all that. And the world stands to the side and says, ‘I can’t possibly believe it.'” Workers at Constellium manufactured critical structural elements for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket constructed by Boeing and the Orion Crew Module constructed by Lockheed Martin. These included the capsule itself that sent NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen orbiting around the Moon on a 10-day mission in April for Artemis II, returning safely to Earth...

Sen. Jim Justice's (R-WV) pup named "Babydog" got a lot of attention on Capitol Hill Thursday for her 7th birthday "rodeo" celebration.