WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA
Administrator Charles Bolden will
participate in the grand opening of The Boeing Company's Commercial
Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday,
Sept. 4. The event will air live on NASA Television
beginning at 10 a.m. EDT.
Boeing, one of two companies under contract with NASA's
Commercial Crew Program to restore America's ability to launch
crews to the International Space Station from the United States, will debut the
modernization of the former space shuttle Orbiter Processing
Facility-3, which now is home to Boeing's CST-100 spacecraft.
Inside, there are more than 150 pieces of hardware, as well as the
structural test article and service module that together will be
used to prove the design Boeing is developing to accomplish flight
tests and crew missions to the space station.
Additional participants are:
- Robert Cabana, director of
NASA's Kennedy Space Center
- Chris Ferguson, deputy manager
of the Commercial Crew Program, Operations, Boeing
- John Elbon, vice president and
general Manager of Space Exploration, Boeing
- John Mulholland, vice president
of Commercial Programs, Boeing
- U.S. Senator Bill Nelson
(D-Florida)
- Florida Governor Rick Scott (R-Florida)
Through a 2011 land-use agreement between Kennedy and Space
Florida, a state economic development agency, the former space
shuttle hangar has been transformed to support Boeing's clean-floor
factory-like concept for processing the CST-100. Kennedy has
transitioned more than 50 facilities for commercial use over the
past few years as the space center has evolved to a multi-user
spaceport.
For more information about NASA's Kennedy Space Center, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/kennedy
For more information about NASA's Commercial Crew Program,
visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew
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