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NASA to Provide Workers Trip Exam Status Update

.NASA is going to organize a media tele-conference at 1 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Aug. 14, to give an update on the company's Boeing Workers Flight Examination. Mission managers continue to examine the Starliner spacecraft's preparedness in advance of decisional appointments no earlier than next week pertaining to the come back of NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams.Audio of the teleconference will certainly stream survive on the organization's website at:.https://www.nasa.gov/nasatv.Participants include:.Ken Bowersox, associate manager, NASA's Space Functions Objective Directorate.Joel Montalbano, replacement associate manager, NASA's Space Functions Goal Directorate.Russ DeLoach, chief, NASA's Office of Protection and also Purpose Assurance.NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba.Emily Nelson, chief trip supervisor, NASA's Trip Operations Directorate.To ask concerns throughout the tele-conference, media need to RSVP absolutely no later than two hours before the beginning of the call to Jimi Russell at: james.j.russell@nasa.gov. NASA's media accreditation plan is offered online.NASA's Boeing Staff Trip Examination released on June 5 on a ULA (United Introduce Alliance) Atlas V spacecraft from Space Launch Complex-41 at Peninsula Canaveral Area Troop Terminal in Florida. It is actually an end-to-end examination of the Starliner body as component of the organization's Office Staff Program. With collaboration along with United States private industry, NASA levels accessibility to low The planet orbit and also the space station to even more individuals, scientific research, and commercial chances.For NASA's blog and more info about the goal, go to:.https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew.- end-.Josh Finch/ Jimi RussellHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov/ james.j.russell@nasa.gov.Courtney Beasley/ Leah CheshierJohnson Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov/ leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.