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VP Harris, South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol to Visit NASA Goddard

Vice President Kamala Harris and Republic of Korea (ROK) President Yoon Suk Yeol will visit NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Tuesday, April 25, to see firsthand the agency’s climate change work. NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Goddard Center Director Makenzie Lystrup will join them on tour.

Vice President Kamala Harris gives remarks in front of the Space Environment Simulator (SES).

Editor’s note: This advisory was updated April 24, 2023, to include a link and credentialing details for media.

Editor’s note: This advisory was updated April 25, 2024, to include streaming information.

Vice President Kamala Harris and Republic of Korea (ROK) President Yoon Suk Yeol will visit NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Tuesday, April 25, to see firsthand the agency’s climate change work. NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Goddard Center Director Makenzie Lystrup will join them on their tour.

The visit will air live at 3:45 p.m., Tuesday, April 25, on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website.

During the visit, the group will meet with Korean-American scientists and receive a briefing on the importance of space to addressing climate change, including NASA’s recently launched Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) mission and the ROK’s Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) mission that are improving life on Earth by revolutionizing the way scientists observe air quality from space. They also will see integration of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, designed to unravel the secrets of dark energy and dark matter, search for and image exoplanets, and explore many topics in infrared astrophysics.

The event will be open to pre-credentialed and pooled media. NASA will provide images of the visit on Flickr.

For more information about NASA Goddard’s missions and activities, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/goddard

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Jackie McGuinness / Faith McKie
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
jackie.mcguinness@nasa.gov / faith.d.mckie@nasa.gov