Sept. 6, 2011 Allard Beutel Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 allard.beutel@nasa.gov Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-185 NASA HOLDS NEWS CONFERENCE ON SPACE STATION NATIONAL LAB AWARD CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA will hold a news conference at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 9, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to discuss the organization that will manage the portion of the International Space Station operated as a U.S. national laboratory. The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space Inc. (CASIS) will help ensure the station's unique capabilities are available to the broadest possible cross-section of the U.S. scientific, technological and industrial communities. The news conference participants are: - Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations - Waleed Abdalati, NASA chief scientist - Mark Uhran, NASA assistant associate administrator for the International Space Station - Jeanne Becker, CASIS executive director Reporters may ask questions in-person from Kennedy or using a phone bridge managed at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. To use the phone bridge, journalists must call the Johnson newsroom at 281-483-5111 by 9:15 a.m. EDT. For NASA TV downlink, schedule and live streaming video information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv Follow the national lab on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/ISS_NatLab For additional information about the International Space Station National Laboratory, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/nlab/index.html -end- To subscribe to the list, send a message to: ksc-subscribe@newsletters.nasa.gov To remove your address from the list, send a message to: ksc-unsubscribe@newsletters.nasa.gov
