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From: Dooren, Jennifer M. (HQ-NA020) March 19, 2024 MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-044 NASA Administrator, Health Secretary to Host Cancer Moonshot
Event
NASA logo Media are invited to join NASA and Department of Health and Human Services leadership at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Thursday, March 21, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, to highlight
how the agencies are making progress toward President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden’s Cancer Moonshot initiative.
During the event, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra will give remarks and are available for interviews afterward. Additional participants include:
Media interested in covering the event must RSVP to Luis Botello Faz no later than 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, via email at: luis.m.botellofaz@nasa.gov.
A copy of NASA’s media accreditation policy
is online. The event will take place in the agency’s Earth Information Center in the East Lobby at NASA Headquarters, located at 300 E St. SW. The International Space Station is a hub for scientific research and technology, including demonstrations to help end cancer as we know it. NASA is working with agencies and researchers across the federal government to help cut the nation’s cancer death rate by at least 50% in the next 25 years,
a goal of the Cancer Moonshot Initiative. Learn more about Cancer Moonshot at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/cancermoonshot/ -end- Faith McKie 202-358-1600 Health and Human Services 202-570-8194 |
