MEDIA EVENT FOR ARRIVAL OF ORION’S SERVICE MODULE FROM EUROPE, Nov 16, 2018, KSC, 9:00 am ET (Webcast)

UPDATE. Nov 13: NASA released a list of additional speakers today (as well as ESA DG Woerner and NASA Administrator Bridenstine).

• Janet Petro, deputy director of Kennedy
• Bill Hill, deputy associate administrator for Exploration Systems Development
• Sue Motil, Orion European Service Module integration manager at NASA’s Glenn Research Center
• Mark Kirasich, Orion Program manager at the agency’s Johnson Space Center
• Phillippe Deloo, European Service Module program manager at ESA

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) will hold an event at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), FL on November 16, 2018 beginning at 9:00 am ET to commemorate the arrival of the Service Module for the Orion spacecraft.  ESA is providing the Service Module (built by Airbus) for NASA’s Orion crew capsule (built by Lockheed Martin) that will be used to send astronauts to the Moon and beyond.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and ESA Director General Jan Woerner will make remarks at 9:00 am ET about the international cooperation needed to achieve humans missions to the Moon and Mars.  Their comments will be broadcast on NASA TV and NASA Live.