WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
-- Vice President Mike Pence
will visit NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on Monday, Sept. 25. The Vice President will tour
Marshall to get an update on the progress of the Space Launch
System rocket and International Space Station science operations as
the agency prepares for missions to deep space, around the Moon and
ultimately to Mars.
Media who wish to cover the Vice President's visit must contact
the Marshall newsroom at 256-544-0034 no later than 5 p.m. CDT, Sunday, Sept.
24. Media should plan to arrive Monday at 11:45 a.m. at the Redstone Arsenal Visitor's
Center at Gate 9 for security screening and badging. Transportation
to the media event will be provided from the Visitor's Center.
The Vice President will tour Marshall's Payload Operations
Integration Facility, where all scientific research aboard the
station is managed around-the-clock, 365 days a year. This research
is helping people learn how to live and work in space for long
periods. The Vice President will see a test with the engine section
of the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage --the largest rocket
stage ever built for the world's most powerful rocket. The
four RS-25 engines and the two solid
rocket boosters that attach to the engine section will produce more
than 8 million pounds of thrust to help send the Orion crew vehicle
farther than any human-rated spacecraft has ever travelled
before.
While at Redstone Arsenal,
where Marshall is located, Vice President Pence will visit the
U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and
Engineering Center for briefs from Army leaders on current missile
defense projects and Army initiatives. Redstone Arsenal is an Army installation with
a workforce of around 41,000 active duty military, government
civilians and contractors. The arsenal is a Federal Center of
Excellence, hosting components of more than 70 government
organizations, including NASA, Department of Defense, Missile
Defense Agency, FBI, and Department of Justice.
Get more information about Redstone
Arsenal at:
https://www.garrison.redstone.army.mil
Get more information about how Marshall Space Flight Center is
hard at work building the SLS rocket and the technologies and
systems needed to send astronauts into deep space at:
https://www.nasa.gov/marshall
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