NASA Holds News Conference On Space Station National Lab Award

[NASA News <hqnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sep. 06, 2011

Joshua Buck 
Headquarters, Washington 
202-358-1100 
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Allard Beutel 
Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 
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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   

	
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