NASA MEDIA TELECON ON NEW SCIENCE, COMMERCIAL STUDY, Sep 29, 2022, virtual, 4:30 pm ET

NASA just announced late this morning that it will hold a media teleconference at 4:30 pm ET this afternoon to “discuss a new study exploring potential commercial space opportunities for NASA science missions.”  It will air on NASA Live.

It has an interesting set of participants — the head of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, the head of NASA’s Space Operations Mission Director, the project manager for NASA’s iconic Hubble Space Telescope, a SpaceX Vice President, and billionaire Jared Isaacman who commanded and paid for the first completely private astronaut mission to orbit — Inspiration4 — last year and is planning at least three flights more under his “Polaris Dawn” brand.

• Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate
• Kathy Lueders, associate administrator, NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate
• Jessica Jensen, vice president, customer operations and integration, SpaceX
• Jared Isaacman, commercial astronaut and commander of Polaris Dawn
• Patrick Crouse, Hubble Space Telescope project manager, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center