Deputy Administrator Tours NASA’s Northeast Ohio Facilities, Meets Media Thursday

CLEVELAND — Media representatives are invited to join NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver as she visits the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland on Thursday, May 16 and tours facilities advancing future spaceflight missions. The locations include Lewis Field and the Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio.

Garver will tour several facilities at Lewis Field beginning at 12:15 p.m. EDT. She will get updates on the work being done in additive manufacturing and cryogenic propellant systems for future extended missions in space and to advance solar electric propulsion technologies for asteroid exploration.

At 3:15 p.m., Garver tours the Spacecraft Propulsion Research Facility, the Space Power Facility at Plum Brook Station and the newly-built Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility.

Reporters interested in attending must contact Lori Rachul at 216-433-8806 or the Glenn Media Relations Office at 216-433-2901 by 8:30 a.m., on Thursday.

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