Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-1726)

Eileen Hawley
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

Whitney Hannon
Maryland Science Center, Baltimore
(Phone: 410/545-5960)

Media representatives are invited to join NASA Administrator
Sean O’Keefe for a major announcement Thursday, 2 p.m. EST, at the
Maryland Science Center in Baltimore.

U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, astronauts Scott Kelly and Barbara Morgan
will join Administrator O’Keefe.

NASA Television will broadcast the event live from the facility’s
SpaceLink space science and astronomy update center, which is located at
601 Light Street.

Reporters interested in attending the event should call Whitney
Hannon at the Maryland Science Center by telephone at 410/545-5960.

The Maryland Science Center’s mission is to stimulate and cultivate
awareness, interest, and understanding of science through educational
programs and exhibits, to be a regional resource, and a national
model for science education.

NASA Television is available on GE-2, Transponder 9C, at 85 degrees
West longitude, vertical polarization, with a frequency of 3880 MHz
and audio of 6.8 MHz.

Additional information about the Maryland Science Center is available
on the Internet at:

http://www.mdsci.org/