Wallops Media Roundtable With NASA'S Space Technology Director

[NASA News <hqnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sept. 14, 2011

Keith Koehler 
Wallops Flight Facility, Va. 
757-864-1579 
keith.a.koehler@xxxxxxxx 

David E. Steitz 
Headquarters, Washington      
202-358-1730 
david.steitz@xxxxxxxx   


MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-195

WALLOPS MEDIA ROUNDTABLE WITH NASA'S SPACE TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- Journalists are invited to a roundtable 
discussion at 11:30 a.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 16, with NASA's Space 
Technology Program Director Michael Gazarik during his visit to the 
agency's Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island, Va. 

Robert Strain, director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in 
Greenbelt, Md., and Wallops Director Bill Wrobel, will join Gazarik 
for the event. They will discuss Wallops' important role in the Space 
Technology Program and in the development of new cutting-edge 
technologies and innovations that will enable NASA's future missions 
in science, exploration and space operations. 

Next year, Wallops will conduct critical high-altitude balloon and 
sounding rocket flights for two major Space Technology projects. They 
will test inflatable aerodynamic decelerators for safely returning 
cargo to Earth from the International Space Station and for landing 
large-scale payloads on planetary surfaces. 

To attend the media roundtable or to participate via teleconference, 
journalists must contact Keith Koehler at 757-824-1579 or 
keith.a.koehler@xxxxxxxx by 3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 15. Audio of 
the event will be streamed live at: 


http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio 


For information about high altitude balloon and sounding rocket 
programs at Wallops, visit: 


http://www.nasa.gov/wallops 


For Gazarik's biography and information about the Office of the Chief 
Technologist, visit: 


http://www.nasa.gov/oct   

	
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