October 10, 2006 Sally Harrington Media Relations Office 216-433-2037 Sally.V.Harrington@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: 06-055 NASA SAFETY CENTER OPENING IN CLEVELAND What: NASA Safety Center When: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 8:15 - 8:45 a.m. Where: Ohio Aerospace Institute 22800 Cedar Point Road Brook Park, Ohio 44142 Who: Rex Geveden, Associate Administrator Bryan O'Connor, Chief Safety and Mission Assurance Office Alan Phillips, NASA Safety Center Director Residing at the Ohio Aerospace Institute outside the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, the new NASA Safety Center will focus its efforts on supporting the development of personnel, processes and tools needed for the safe and successful achievement of NASA's strategic goals in support of the Vision for Space Exploration. The facility will support and strengthen the wide range of NASA safety and mission assurance efforts and its disciplines of system safety, reliability and maintainability, quality engineering and assurances, software assurance, and risk management. Media representatives are invited to the dedication of the NASA Safety Center. Reporters interested in attending should contact Sally Harrington or the Media Relations Office at 216-433-2091 by noon on Tuesday, October 10. For more information about NASA and agency programs, visit: http://www.nasa.gov -end-