Governor John Hickenlooper proclaimed December 3 Ball Day in honor of Ball Aerospace which is celebrating its 60th anniversary.
Boulder based, Ball Aerospace was founded by Edmund Ball in partnership with physicists from the University of Colorado, as the Ball Brothers Research Corporation in 1956.
They've been involved in many historic scientific achievements, including building the Ralph camera that returned the first high-resolution images of Pluto on the New Horizons mission, returning the first high-resolution image of Mars’ surface from the HiRISE camera, building the first spacecraft, Deep Impact, to intersect a comet and building the planet-hunting spacecraft, Kepler, which has discovered more than 2,500 confirmed exoplanets.
Ball Aerospace employs more than 2,300 people in the state of Colorado.
