Johnson Space Center Office of Communications
Feb 13, 2024
Feb. 13, 2024
MEDIA ADVISORY: J24-002
NASA Johnson Director to Discuss Exploration Park at ASCENDxTexas
Media are welcomed to go to an occasion with NASA happening as part of ASCENDxTexas on Thursday, Feb. 15.
Vanessa Wyche, director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, will remain in presence, as will Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp and Texas A&M University President Mark Welsh. They will offer updates on Exploration Park and are readily available briefly for interviews after the statement.
NASA looked for propositions for usage of the undeveloped and underutilized land near Saturn Lane, called Exploration Park, on June 9, 2023. The parcel is beyond Johnson’s regulated gain access to location and nearby to its primary school.
ASCENDxTexas, hosted by AIAA, starts on Wednesday, Feb. 14, at South Shore Harbour Resort and Conference Center, League City, Texas. Media check-in will start at 9:20 a.m. CST, with the occasion starting quickly at 9:45 a.m. For ASCENDxTexas media credentialing, check out:
https://www.aiaa.org/events-learning/events/ascend/ascend-press-pass
For more than 60 years, NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston has actually led the country and the world on a continuing experience of human expedition, discovery, and accomplishment. Today, Johnson is the center of human spaceflight, the home of objective control and astronaut training, and leads the International Space Station, Orion, and Gateway programs, while likewise playing essential functions in various other sophisticated human expedition and research study jobs.
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Kelly Humphries
Johnson Space Center, Houston
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