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NASA Invites Media to SLS Industry Day by Staff Writers Huntsville AL (SPX) May 17, 2018
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will host an industry day on Tuesday, May 22. Officials will share information about the latest NASA contract opportunities with representatives of large and small businesses as well as prime contractors and subcontractors for the agency's deep-space rocket, the Space Launch System. Media are invited to attend the free event at the Jackson Center in Huntsville at 6001 Moquin Drive, Northwest, to hear from SLS program officials, Marshall's Small Business Specialist David Brock and other agency officials. Media interested in attending must contact Jennifer Stanfield at 256-544-7199 or [email protected] by Monday, May 21, at 1 p.m. The event, organized by Marshall's Small Business Office, will provide participants with detailed information on how to do business with government agencies, large businesses and NASA field centers and operations around the nation. Breakout sessions will detail upcoming business opportunities across the agency and introduce small business owners to key NASA personnel and representatives of NASA prime contractors. Officials from SLS prime contractors Aerojet Rocketdyne, Orbital ATK, Teledyne Brown Engineering and Boeing will provide updates about their work with SLS. Brock and Steve Creech, SLS Spacecraft/Payloads Integration and Evolution Office manager, will be available for interviews with media at approx. 10 a.m. following the morning presentations. SLS will enable a new era of exploration, launching astronauts in the Orion spacecraft on missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
Jim Bridenstine brings understanding of commercial technology to his new role as NASA Admin McLean VA (SPX) May 04, 2018 The recent Senate confirmation of Rep. Jim Bridenstine as NASA's 13th administrator bodes well for a fresh perspective that can benefit both the agency and commercial space industry. As the representative for Oklahoma's first congressional district, Bridenstine is the first elected official to head the nation's space agency. Since coming to congress in 2013, Bridenstine took a keen interest in shifting government policy more towards using commercial satellite technology, and that approach will likely gu ... read more
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