Glenn Mahone/Doc Mirelson
Headquarters, Washington Feb. 10, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-1600)
Steve Nesbitt
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)
RELEASE: 03-063
COLUMBIA ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION BOARD BRIEFING SET
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) will
conduct its first press conference on Tuesday, Feb. 11, at 3
p.m. EST. The press briefing is in the Teague auditorium at
the Johnson Space Center, Houston.
Board Chairman, retired Navy Admiral Harold W. Gehman Jr.,
and other board members, will discuss their activities to
date, CAIB structure, and plans for the investigation.
Other board members are: Maj. Gen. John L. Barry, director,
plans and programs, Headquarters USAF Materiel Command,
Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio; Brig. Gen Duane W. Deal,
commander 21st Space Wing, Peterson AFB, Colo.; James
Hallock, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Draper Lab);
Maj. Gen. Kenneth W. Hess, USAF chief of safety, Washington,
and commander, Air Force Safety Center, Kirtland Air Force
Base, N.M.; Scott Hubbard, director NASA Ames Research
Center, Calif.; Roger E. Tetrault, former chairman of
McDermott International, Inc.; Rear Adm. Stephen A.
Turcotte, commander, Naval Safety Center, Norfolk, Va.; and
Steven Wallace, Director, FAA Office of Accident
Investigation.
Theron M Bradley Jr., NASA's Chief Engineer; and Bryan D.
O'Connor, NASA's Associate Administrator are providing
NASA's support to the board for Safety and Mission
Assurance.
The press conference will be broadcast on NASA Television;
reporters may ask questions form selected NASA centers. NASA
Television is broadcast on AMC-2, transponder 9C, C-Band,
located at 85 degrees west longitude. The frequency is
3880.0 MHz. Polarization is vertical and audio is monaural
at 6.8 MHz.
More information about NASA is on the Internet at:
www.nasa.gov
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