NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio performs work
outside the International Space Station as part of STS-131's first spacewalk,
which lasted about 6.5 hours. Mastracchio returned from his latest stay aboard
the space station in May 2014.
Image Credit:
NASA
NASA Astronaut Rick Mastracchio will visit Orbital Sciences Corporation at
1:30 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 15, where he will hold a town hall meeting with the
company’s team that carries out cargo delivery missions to the International
Space Station under the agency's Commercial Resupply Services (CRS)
contract.
Media are invited to attend the event at Orbital’s Dulles campus, located at
45101 Warp Drive in Dulles, Virginia.
While at Orbital, Mastracchio will view several Cygnus spacecraft service
modules in production and visit the Mission Operations Center from which
Orbital’s CRS missions are controlled.
In the first of its eight operational missions under the CRS contract,
Orbital successfully berthed its Cygnus spacecraft with the International Space
Station on Jan. 12, carrying about 3,200 pounds of science experiments, food and
other supplies to the station astronauts. Cargo resupply from U.S. companies
ensures a national capability to deliver critical science research to the space
station, significantly increasing NASA's ability to conduct new science
investigations to the only laboratory in microgravity.
Media interested in attending should submit their credentials to Barron
Beneski at 703-406-5528 or beneski.barron@orbital.com no later
than 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11.
For more information on Orbital, visit:
For more information on Orbital's role in NASA's Commercial Cargo Program,
visit:
NASA
Guillermo Gonzalo Sánchez Achutegui
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