Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Discussion Of New Mission And Response To Obama's 2011 Budget
Request
NASA will hold news conferences on
Monday, Feb. 1, and Tuesday, Feb. 2, to discuss the fiscal year
2011 budget request and announce new developments in the nation's
civil space effort.
On Monday, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Chief Financial
Officer Beth Robinson will brief reporters about the agency's
fiscal year 2011 budget during a teleconference at 12:30 p.m. EST.
This is a change from the previously announced 3 p.m. Monday news
conference in the James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium at NASA
Headquarters in Washington.
On Tuesday, Administrator Bolden, Dr. John Holdren, Assistant to
the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White
House Office of Science and Technology Policy, will introduce new
commercial space pioneers, launching a game-changing way of
developing technology to send humans to space.
The announcement will take place at 10 a.m. in the National
Press Club's ballroom, located at 529 14th Street NW in
Washington. NASA Television and the agency's Web site will
carry the briefing live.
In addition to the two NASA events, Deputy Administrator Lori
Garver will participate with Dr. Holdren in a briefing by the
Office of Science and Technology Policy about the federal
government's 2011 research and development budget. The briefing
will take place at 1 p.m. EST, Monday, Feb. 1 in the auditorium of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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