NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will be at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on Tuesday, April 7, to honor the Center with a small business award and discuss the status of the Space Launch System rocket and the centers support role with the International Space Station and other center programs and projects that are contributing to NASA's mission of space exploration and steps on its journey to Mars.

Marshall Center Director Patrick Scheuermann will join Bolden at 11 a.m. CDT in the Building 4200 press room for a short question-and-answer session with media. The event will not be televised.

Media interested in attending should contact Kimberly Newton in the Marshall Center's Public & Employee Communications Office at 256-544-0034 by 5 p.m. Monday, April 6. Participants must be at the Redstone Arsenal Joint Visitor Control Center at Gate 9, Interstate 565 interchange at Rideout Road/Research Park Boulevard, by 10:15 a.m. April 7 to attend. Vehicles are subject to a security search at the game. News media will need two photo identification and proof of car insurance. Visitor parking is available in front of Building 4200 on the southwest side.

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NASA Administrator to Visit Marshall Space Flight Center, Meet Media