March 10, 2011

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa gov

Keith Koehler Wallops Flight Facility, Va 757-824-1579 keith a koehler@nasa gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-046

NASA UNVEILING NEW ROCKET INTEGRATION FACILITY AT WALLOPS

WASHINGTON -- NASA will unveil its new rocket integration facility at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a m EDT on March 22

The Horizontal Integration Facility will support medium-class mission capabilities The first customer to use the facility will be Orbital Sciences Corp of Dulles, Va , with its Taurus II launch vehicle

Orbital will conduct missions for NASA under the agency's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services project and Commercial Resupply Services program Integration of the Taurus II in the facility will begin this month, with the first launch expected later this year

Participants in the ceremony are: - Sen Barbara Mikulski - NASA Administrator Charles Bolden - NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations William Gerstenmaier - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Director Rob Strain - NASA Wallops Flight Facility Director William Wrobel - Orbital Sciences Corp Chairman and CEO David Thompson

The ribbon-cutting ceremony initially was scheduled for Jan 21, but was postponed because of bad weather Media representatives interested in attending this event must contact Keith Koehler at keith a koehler@nasa gov or 757-824-1579 by noon on March 18

For more information about Wallops, visit:

http://www nasa gov/wallops

For more information about the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services project, visit:

http://www nasa gov/cots

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