NASA Administrator and former astronaut Charles Bolden will be at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, this Friday, May 8, to participate in a ceremony recognizing NASA Langley’s decades of contributions to improving helicopter and other vertical flight aircraft.
Media are invited to attend the ceremony, which starts at 10 a.m. EDT. Interested media should contact Kathy Barnstorff at (757) 864-9886 or kathy.barnstorff@nasa.gov no later than 4:30 p.m. Thursday, May 7, and arrive at the NASA Langley gate at 2 Langley Blvd. by 9:40 a.m. on May 8.
During Friday’s ceremony, the American Helicopter Society (AHS) International will formally name Langley a Vertical Flight Heritage Site. Bolden and Jaiwon Shin, associate administrator for NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate in Washington, will accept the designation on behalf of the agency. Hampton Mayor George Wallace and AHS International executive director Mike Hirschberg also will attend.
AHS International will present NASA Langley with a plaque that states: “Since its establishment in 1917 as the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, the Langley Research Center has performed groundbreaking research to advance the state of the art in vertical flight.”
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Kathy Barnstorff
Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.
757-864-9886/757-344-8511 (cell)
kathy.barnstorff@nasa.gov
J.D. Harrington
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-5241
j.d.harrington@nasa.gov