Agenda Released for U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Meeting

June 16, 2009

Doc Mirelson/Stephanie Schierholz
Headquarters, Washington
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MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-108

AGENDA RELEASED FOR U.S. HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT PLANS MEETING

WASHINGTON -- The first public meeting of the Review of U.S. Human
Space Flight Plans Committee will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EDT
on Wednesday, June 17, at the Carnegie Institute, located at 1530 P
Street NW in Washington. The meeting will take place in the
auditorium and is open to the public. No pre-registration is
required.

The planned agenda is below. All times are EDT.

9 a.m.: Introduction and opening remarks

9:20 a.m.: Summary of past studies

9:30 a.m.: NASA's Constellation Program

10 a.m.: International Space Station partner discussions (European
Space Agency and Roscosmos)

11 a.m.: Authorization bills and congressional perspective

Noon: Public comment period

12:30 p.m.: Lunch break

1 p.m.: Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle considerations

2 p.m.: Other commercial launch capabilities


NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Program
SpaceX COTS program status
Orbital COTS program status
International Space Station commercial resupply services process and
status

3:30 p.m.: Alternative architectures
Direct
Space shuttle side-mount options

4:30 p.m.: Public comment period

5 p.m.: Meeting adjourned

Following the meeting, committee chairman Norman Augustine will
answer
questions from the news media from approximately 5:05 p.m. to 5:30
p.m. NASA Television will carry the meeting and news conference live
on the agency's media channel. Both events also can be viewed on the
agency's Web site. To watch the events online, select the media
channel at:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

Viewers also can watch and participate in the meeting online via
Ustream at:

http://www.ustream.tv/nasatelevision

For committee information, charter, biographies and schedules, visit:

http://hsf.nasa.gov

For information about NASA and agency activities, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

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