What: “Just One Drop … PRICELESS” is the slogan for this year’s Earth
Day events April 21 at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in
Huntsville, Ala. Kate Stoughton, a resource efficiency manager
program director of Sain Engineering Associates Inc. in Birmingham,
Ala., will discuss the importance of environmentally friendly
buildings. Other activities include a tree planting and vendor
exhibits, which will be staffed by local vendors and organizations
who will demonstrate environmental practices and products. Marshall
team members will have an opportunity to taste wastewater processed
by the Environmental Control Life Support System used by crews on the
International Space Station. This system is designed to provide space
station crews with a comfortable environment and to reduce the
dependence on Earth resupply. Earth Day, which began April 22, 1970,
is an annual world-wide campaign to inspire awareness of and
appreciation for the environment.

Who: Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle and Madison Mayor Paul Finely will
help Marshall Engineering Director Dan Dumbacher plant a tree
following the opening ceremony. Marshall’s Environmental Control Life
Support System team will talk during the vendor fair about how the
support system works, and how recycling water onboard the
International Space Station ties in with the “Just One
Drop … PRICELESS” Earth Day slogan.

When/Where: Tuesday, April 21, 2009, Marshall Space Flight Center
Activities Building 4316
Earth Day ceremony: 10-10:30 a.m., CDT
Environmental Control Life Support System water tasting exhibit:
10:30-11 a.m.
Vendor exhibits: 10:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.

To attend: News media interested in covering the event should contact
the Marshall Public & Employee Communications Office at 256-544-0034
no later than 9 a.m., Tuesday, April 21. Media must report to the
Redstone Arsenal Joint Visitor Control Center at Gate 9, Interstate
565 interchange at Rideout Road/Research Park Boulevard. Vehicles are
subject to a security search at the gate. News media will need two
photo identifications and proof of car insurance. Visitor parking is
available in front of Building 4200 on the southwest side.