On Thursday, at 3 p.m. EST, NASA’s Associate Administrator for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate Craig E. Steidle and Assistant Administrator for External Relations Michael F. O’Brien will discuss the results of the first international workshop on the Vision for U.S. Space Exploration.

The workshop is this week in Washington. It is the first in a series of NASA-sponsored workshops seeking opportunities for mutually beneficial international cooperation in support of the Vision for U.S. Space Exploration.

Agencies from 18 international organizations are planning to attend the three-day conference. Participants include: Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, European Space Agency, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom and the European Commission.

For call-in information to participate in the briefing, reporters should contact the NASA Headquarters Newsroom, Washington at: 202/358-1600, by 4 p.m. EST, Wednesday.

News media who do not want to ask questions may listen to the live Web audio-stream at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

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