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For Release: December 8, 2000

Media Advisory: 00-330
 

X-33 aerospike engine news conference Dec. 13

Program managers for the X-33 project will meet with reporters by television next week to discuss tandem test-firings of the Linear Aerospike, NASA's radical new rocket engine.

The briefing is set for 11 a.m. EST, Wednesday, Dec. 13. Early next year will see the first of at least nine tests of two clustered Aerospikes mounted together on a rocket stand.

Participants in the one-hour news conference are expected to be:

  • Gene Austin, NASA X-33 Program Manager, Marshall Space Flight Center, AL
  • Cleon Lacefield, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company Vice President for X-33, Palmdale, CA
  • Don Chenevert, NASA X-33 Program Manager, Aerospike Engine Testing, Stennis Space Center, MS
  • Mike McKeon, X-33 Aerospike Engine Program Manager, Rocketdyne Propulsion and Power, The Boeing Company, Canoga Park, CA

NASA Centers will provide two-way question and answer capability though NASA Television for accredited news media. NASA TV is on GE-2, transponder 9C, located at 85 degrees West longitude, with vertical polarization. Frequency will be on 3880.0 megahertz, with audio on 6.8 megahertz.