WASHINGTON, May 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA
Administrator Jim Bridenstine, and
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and U.S. Rep.
Brian Babin of Texas will hold a news conference at
1 p.m. CDT Sunday, May 31, at Space
Center Houston, the official visitor center of NASA's Johnson Space
Center in Houston, to discuss the
successful docking of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying
NASA astronauts Robert
Behnken and Douglas
Hurley to the International Space Station.
Johnson Center Director Mark
Geyer and Space Center Houston
President and CEO William T.
Harris also will participate in the live media briefing in
front of the visitor center's flown SpaceX Falcon 9 exhibit.
To participate in the news conference, media must be in person,
and it will not be carried live on NASA Television.
To RSVP to attend, contact Meridyth
Moore at 281-709-8124 or mmoore@spacecenter.org no later
than 11 a.m. Media should arrive at
Space Center Houston, located at 1601 NASA Parkway, Houston, no
later than 12:30 p.m. and must follow
physical distancing parameters and wear facial coverings.
Behnken and Hurley made history Saturday as they became the
first Americans to launch on an American rocket from American soil
to the International Space Station in nearly a decade. Their
successful docking to the station completed many of the test
objectives of the SpaceX Demo-2 mission, and the rest will be
completed as the spacecraft operates as part of the space station,
then undocks and descends for a parachute landing in the Atlantic
Ocean this summer.
Bridenstine is NASA's 13th administrator. He was nominated
by President Donald Trump, confirmed
by the U.S. Senate, and sworn in April 23,
2018. In this role, Bridenstine leads an agency critical to
the nation's economy, security and technological preeminence.
Cruz is the junior Senator from Texas, and took office in 2013. He was the
runner-up for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2016
election. Cruz is a member of the Senate committees on Science
and Transportation, Armed Services, the Judiciary, Commerce, and
the special committee on Aging. He holds degrees in public policy
and law from Princeton University and
Harvard Law School.
Babin was sworn in to the 114th Congress in 2015. He serves
on the House Committees on Science, Space and Technology, and
Transportation and Infrastructured, in addition to several
subcommittees.
Geyer is Johnson's 12th director, a position to which he
was appointed by Bridenstine on May 25,
2018. Geyer leads a workforce of approximately 10,000 civil
servant and contractor employees at one of NASA's largest
installations.
For information about NASA's missions, programs, and activities,
visit:
https://www.nasa.gov
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