Obama Space Conference Outline Emerges

President Obama will make a major space policy address and meet privately with Members of Congress at the space conference he has scheduled for April 15 at Kennedy Space Center. Those are the first formal public tidbits about what will happen that day, revealed by NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden during a media teleconference this afternoon. He said that the event will be by invitation only, but will be broadcast on NASA TV. It will also feature four panel sessions where NASA hopes to obtain input from a variety of individuals, though who they are was not announced. Gen. Bolden said that he was not in charge of the invitation list. He said that NASA would rely on the media to get the word out about what transpires at the meeting, but it remains unclear as to who from the media will be allowed in.