NASA Deputy Administrator Meets With Commercial Space Innovators
WASHINGTON -- NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will travel to Las Vegas and Boulder, Colo., this week to meet with leaders of two commercial space companies, Bigelow Aerospace and Sierra Nevada Corp., and tour their facilities. NASA is partnering with the commercial sector to develop innovative technologies to ensure that the U.S. remains competitive in future space endeavors.On Friday, Feb. 4, Garver will tour Bigelow Aerospace facilities at
1899 W. Brooks Ave. in North Las Vegas. NASA has been discussing
potential partnership opportunities with Bigelow for its inflatable
habitat technologies. Garver and the company's President Robert
Bigelow will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. PST. To attend, media
representatives must contact Mike Gold at mgold@bigelowaerospace.com.
On Saturday, Feb. 5, Garver will meet with Mark Sirangello, chairman
of Sierra Nevada Space Systems. Afterward, she will tour the
company's facility responsible for spacecraft mechanical subsystems,
components and satellite manufacturing in Louisville, Colo. Garver
also will visit a test facility at the University of Colorado at
Boulder to observe progress on Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser
spacecraft. It is under development with support from NASA's
Commercial Crew Development Program to provide crew transportation to
and from low Earth orbit.
A news conference will be held at 11:30 a.m. MST in the CU-Boulder
College of Engineering and Applied Science, Civil Engineering
Building, located on the northeast corner of Colorado Ave. and Regent
Drive. To attend, news media must contact Teresa Jones at
720-256-7073 or teresa.jones@sncorp.com.
Journalists interested in a one-on-one interview with Garver during
the Feb. 4 and Feb. 5 events should contact Sarah Ramsey at
202-215-9680 or sarah.ramsey@nasa.gov.
Deputy Administrator Garver's biography is available at:
http://www.nasa.gov/about/
Photos and information about the two events will be posted on her
Facebook and Twitter sites.
http://www.facebook.com/
http://twitter.com/lori_garver
For information about NASA and agency programs, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov
Source: NASA
