For release: 09-03-04
Release #: 04-226

NASA's Starship 2040 exhibit to arrive in central Pennsylvania today to share Vision for Space Exploration at Festival of Nations

What: NASA's futuristic Starship 2040 - a traveling space liner exhibit that gives visitors a look at space flight technology as it might exist four decades from now - opens today at the Festival of Nations in Selinsgrove, Pa. The exhibit presents the Vision for Space Exploration, which will return humans to the Moon, where they will lay the groundwork for exploration missions to Mars and beyond.

When: Friday-Monday, Sept. 3-6, 2004
Noon to 8 p.m. EDT each day

Where: Festival of Nations at the Selinsgrove Speedway, Selinsgrove, Pa. Starship 2040 will be located inside the Expo Center

To attend: News media interested in scheduling an interview with a Starship 2040 staff member at the exhibit in Selinsgrove should call the Marshall Media Relations Department at (256) 544-0034.

For supporting materials for this news release - such as photographs, fact sheets, video and audio files and more - please visit the NASA Marshall Center Newsroom Web site at: http://www.msfc.nasa.gov/news/

For more information:
Note to Editors
News release
Fact sheet
Starship 2040 Web site