Members of the press are invited to watch the televised launch of NASA's space shuttle Discovery on Thursday, Oct. 29, at noon in the new Lockheed Martin Room in CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø's College of Engineering and Applied Science.
The launch will feature the return to space of former Mercury astronaut John Glenn and the launch of eight experiments and hardware developed by BioServe Space Technologies, which is headquartered at CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø. BioServe is a joint venture between NASA, the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø and Kansas State University.
The Lockheed Martin Room is located in room 1B16 of the aerospace engineering wing, just to the west and north of the Dean's first-floor offices and down one flight stairs. With funding from Lockheed Martin, the room was recently upgraded into a "smart classroom," which includes a ceiling-mounted, high-resolution projector that students are able to activate using laptop computers.
The event is being beamed to campus by NASA Select Television.
After the launch, media are invited to visit BioServe's new control room, where faculty and students will send commands up and receive data from Discovery directly from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston during it's 10-day flight.
For more information, contact David Klaus at 303-492-3525 or Jim Scott in the CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø public relations office at 303-492-3114.