NASA managers available to discuss Shuttle return to flight

Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington Nov. 12, 2004
(Phone: 202/358-4769)

Kyle Herring
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

MEDIA ADVISORY: M04-182

NASA MANAGERS AVAILABLE TO DISCUSS SHUTTLE RETURN TO FLIGHT

The top managers of NASA's human and robotic programs
are coming together to share their expertise as the agency
prepares to return a safer Space Shuttle to flight. Media can
talk with NASA officials about this agency effort during a
teleconference Friday, Nov. 19.

Managers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
Pasadena, Calif., who directed operations of the Mars rovers,
will lend their experience to a practice session by Space
Shuttle mission managers next week at NASA's Johnson Space
Center (JSC) in Houston. The session is part of a continuing
exchange of best practices that began with multiple visits by
Deputy Space Shuttle Program Manager Wayne Hale to JPL to
observe critical periods of the Mars Exploration Rover
Mission.

Hale and JPL's Pete Theisinger, former project manager for
the Mars Exploration Rover Mission and current project
manager for the 2009 Mars Science Laboratory mission, will be
available to media via teleconference at 5 p.m. EST Friday,
Nov. 18 to discuss the efforts. To participate, media should
contact the JSC Newsroom by 6 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 18 at:
281/483-5111.

News media who do not want to ask questions can listen on the
Web, as the session will be audio streamed live at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

For more information about NASA's Return to Flight efforts,
visit:

www.nasa.gov/returntoflight

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