[meteorite-list] NASA TV Airs Discussion on Removing Barriers to Deep Space Exploration

[Ron Baalke]

November 1, 2013

Rachel Kraft
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
rachel.h.kraft at nasa.gov 
     
RELEASE M13-169
     
NASA TV Airs Discussion on Removing Barriers to Deep Space Exploration

NASA Television will air a roundtable discussion with aerospace industry  
leaders at 9 a.m. EST Tuesday, Nov. 12 about the progress being made toward  
sending humans into deep space.

The live broadcast will take place at the Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,  
in Washington, and is open to visitors with paid admission.

Panelists representing NASA and its prime contractors will discuss the work  
being done on the agency's Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket,  
which will carry humans farther into space than ever before. The participants  
are:

-- William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for human exploration and  
operations, NASA
-- Julie Van Kleek, vice president, advanced space and launch programs,  
Aerojet Rocketdyne
-- Charlie Precourt, vice president and general manager, ATK Space Launch  
Division
-- John Elbon, vice president and general manager, Boeing Space Exploration
-- Jim Crocker, vice president and general manager, civil space, Lockheed  
Martin Space Systems

Orion and the Space Launch System will provide the United States an entirely  
new human space exploration capability, a flexible system that can extend  
human presence beyond low-Earth orbit and enable new missions of exploration  
in our solar system.

The discussion is sponsored by TechAmerica's Space Enterprise Council in  
partnership with the George Marshall Institute and the Coalition for Space  
Exploration.

There will be time for media to ask questions following the discussion. Media  
wanting to attend the broadcast must contact Sean Wilson at 832-864-3518 or  
sean at griffincg.com by 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8.

For more information on NASA's human deep space exploration, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/exploration 

For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv 

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