{"id":785863,"date":"2024-07-16T15:02:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T20:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=785863"},"modified":"2024-07-16T15:02:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T20:02:51","slug":"nasa-to-provide-background-on-space-station-deorbit-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=785863","title":{"rendered":"NASA to Provide Background on Space Station Deorbit Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NASA is planning for the future in low Earth orbit for science, research, and commercial opportunities as the agency and its international partners maximize the use of the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>As the agency fosters new commercial space stations, leadership from NASA and SpaceX will participate in a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday, July 17, to discuss the company\u2019s selection to develop and deliver the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle, which will safely move the International Space Station out of orbit and into a remote area of an ocean at the end of its operations.<\/p>\n<p>Audio of the teleconference will stream live on the agency\u2019s website:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\n<p>Participants include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ken Bowersox, associate administrator, NASA\u2019s Space Operations Mission Directorate<\/li>\n<li>Dana Weigel, manager, NASA\u2019s International Space Station Program<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Walker, director, Dragon mission management, SpaceX<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a>Media interested in participating must contact the newsroom at NASA Johnson no later than one hour prior to the start of the call at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov. A copy of NASA\u2019s media accreditation policy is online.<\/p>\n<p>As the agency transitions to commercially owned space destinations, it is crucial to prepare for the safe and responsible deorbit of the space station in a controlled manner after the end of its operational life in 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the agency\u2019s International Space Station Deorbit Analysis Summary white paper.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about space station operations at:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">-end-<\/p>\n<p>Josh Finch \/ Jimi Russell<br \/>Headquarters, Washington<br \/>202-358-1100<br \/>joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov \/ james.j.russell@nasa.gov<\/p>\n<p>Sandra Jones<br \/>Johnson Space Center, Houston<br \/>281-483-5111<br \/>sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-to-provide-background-on-space-station-deorbit-planning\/?rand=772114\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is planning for the future in low Earth orbit for science, research, and commercial opportunities as the agency and its international partners maximize the use of the International Space&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":785864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-NASA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=785863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/785864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}