NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center and Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) will host a news conference on Tuesday, March 11, to announce a newly expanded Space Act Agreement. Under this new agreement, Marshall will provide technical expertise to SNC as it plans for integration of on-orbit science payloads on its Dream Chaser spacecraft. Teledyne Brown Engineering, which will provide support to SNC under a Teaming Agreement, will also participate.

The news conference will be held in the Marshall Center press room, Building 4200, on Rideout Road at 10 a.m. Media that cannot attend in person may join the news conference via telephone by calling 800-619-2655, passcode: SierraNV

News conference participants are:

- Paul Gilbert, deputy manager of the Flight Programs and Partnerships Office, NASA Marshall - Mark McEylea, chief of the Advanced Planning and Integration Office for Marshalls Mission Operations Laboratory - Mark Sirangelo, corporate vice president and head of Sierra Nevada Corporations Space Systems, Louisville, Colo. - Rex Geveden, executive vice president of Teledyne Technologies, Thousand Oaks, Calif.

News media interested in attending should contact Janet Anderson in Marshall's Public & Employee Communications Office at 256-544-0034 no later than 4 p.m. CDT Monday, March 10.

Media must report to the Redstone Arsenal Visitor Center at Gate 9, I-565 interchange at Rideout Road/Research Park Boulevard at 9 a.m., Tuesday, March 11 for escort.

For more information about Marshall Space Flight Center, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/home/index.html.

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