NASA's Orion Engineers Available For Interviews In Seattle

          NASA's Orion Engineers Available For Interviews In Seattle

PR Newswire

HOUSTON, Feb. 21, 2013

HOUSTON, Feb. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA is building a new
spacecraft to carry humans farther than ever before as we begin the next era
of exploration. Seattle media are invited to learn more about Orion when
engineers helping design the spacecraft are in Seattle on Feb. 26 and 27.

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While in the area for program meetings at a local company producing elements
of the spacecraft, several members of NASA's Orion crew module team will be
speaking with the public and available for interviews.

NASA's Stuart McClung, manager for the Orion crew module landing and recovery
system, and Larry Price, deputy program manager with Lockheed Martin, the
primary Orion contractor, will be speak at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 26 at The Museum of
Flight. The event is open to the public without charge.

Howard Hu, deputy manager of NASA's Orion vehicle integration office, and
Nujoud Merancy, Orion systems engineer, will speak with students at the
University of Washington. Both are University of Washington alumni and Seattle
natives. The event is not open to the public, but interview opportunities will
be available.

Charlie Lundquist, NASA's crew and service module manager for Orion, and Price
will be available on Feb. 27 for interviews at Aerojet, a Seattle-area company
building the launch abort system jettison motor and reaction control system
elements for Orion's first test flights. Julie Van Kleeck, Aerojet's vice
president for space and launch systems, also will be available.

Hu and Merancy will speak again with students at the University of Washington
that day.

Other interview opportunities are available on request. Contact Dan Huot at
daniel.g.huot@nasa.gov for details on any of these opportunities.

The Orion spacecraft will have the ability to send humans to the moon,
asteroids and eventually Mars. Its first uncrewed test flight will take place
next year, when it will be launched farther into space than any spacecraft
designed for humans has gone in more than 40 years, and return to Earth at
speeds greater than 20,000 mph.

Further information – including photos, videos and b-roll – on the Orion
program can be found at:

http://www.nasa.gov/orion

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SOURCE NASA

Website: http://www.nasa.gov
Contact: Dan Huot, Johnson Space Center, Houston, +1-281-483-5111,
Daniel.g.huot@nasa.gov