WASHINGTON, March 3, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA and
Bigelow Aerospace invite media to a photo and interview opportunity
at 10 a.m. PST on Thursday, March 12, at Bigelow Aerospace's North
Las Vegas facility to mark the completion of all major milestones
on the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM).
Reporters will have the opportunity to see and photograph the
BEAM before it's shipped to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for launch to the International Space
Station later this year. Robert
Bigelow, president and founder of Bigelow Aerospace, and
William Gerstenmaier, NASA's
associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, will
conduct a joint question and answer session with media.
To attend, media must contact Mike
Gold at mgold@bigelowaerospace.com or 202-274-0227. Media
seeking additional information, or who would like to request a
one-on-one interview with Bigelow, also should contact Gold.
Reporters seeking a one-on-one interview with Gerstenmaier should
contact Stephanie Schierholz at
stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov or 202-358-1100.
The demonstration of expandable space habitat technology
supports NASA's long-term exploration goals on its journey to Mars,
for which the agency will need to develop a deep space habitat for
human missions beyond Earth orbit.
The BEAM is scheduled to launch in the second half of this year
aboard the eighth SpaceX cargo resupply mission to the station and
be installed on the aft port of the station's Tranquility node.
For more information about Bigelow Aerospace, visit:
http://www.bigelowaerospace.com
For more information about the BEAM, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/news/beam_feature.html
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