NASA Administrator to Announce Commercial Space Progress During Media Availability at Kennedy Space Center Aug. 23

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Aug. 21, 2012

Lisa Malone
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
321-867-2468
lisa.a.malone@nasa.gov

David Weaver
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
david.s.weaver@nasa.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-154

NASA ADMINISTRATOR TO ANNOUNCE COMMERCIAL SPACE PROGRESS DURING MEDIA AVAILABILITY AT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER AUG. 23

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Media are invited to an interview availability 
and facilities tour with NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden at noon 
EDT, Thursday, Aug. 23, at various locations in and around the 
agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. During the media tour, 
Bolden will detail recent progress related to NASA's commercial 
spaceflight initiatives.

Media must be at Kennedy's press site by 11:15 a.m. for transportation 
to the first location. Media will return to the press site by 3:30 
p.m. For media wanting to cover a separate XCOR event at Kennedy's 
Visitor Complex, transportation to the Bolden event will be provided 
and depart the Visitor Complex at 11:30 a.m.

Bolden and media will tour two locations on Cape Canaveral Air Force 
Station: SpaceX's facility at Space Launch Complex 40 and United 
Launch Alliance's Space Launch Complex 41, where the Atlas V rocket 
carrying NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) spacecraft is on 
the launch pad. RBSP is scheduled to launch Friday morning.

Bolden and media then will go to Kennedy's Operations and Checkout 
Building to see the latest progress on NASA's Orion Multi-Purpose 
Crew Vehicle, which is being prepared for launch on the Exploration 
Flight Test-1 in early 2014.

The tour ends at Kennedy, where The Boeing Company is preparing its 
CST-100 spacecraft, which is part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program 
work. NASA is working with U.S. companies to eventually provide crew 
transportation to and from low Earth orbit and the space station.

NASA RBSP media badges will be honored for this event. No new 
credentials for international media will be issued. U.S. journalists 
without media credentials must apply online by noon, Aug. 22, at:

https://media.ksc.nasa.gov 

For more information about NASA's Orion, Space Launch System, 
Commercial Crew, Ground Systems Development and Operations and 
International Space Station programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/exploration 

	
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