Senior NASA officials today will offer an update Kennedy Space Center's post-shuttle future. Center Director Bob Cabana and other KSC managers will address several hundred community leaders, business executives, educators, community organizers, and state and local government leaders expected to attend the center's annual Community Leaders Breakfast.
This morning's event is hosted at the Visitor Complex's Debus Conference Facility.
At 11 a.m., Cabana will join NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden for a tour of the 355-foot mobile launcher NASA plans to use for launches of a giant heavy-lift rocket for deep space missions.
Built for the cancelled Constellation program's Ares I rocket, the Apollo-style mobile launch platform and tower is expected to be modified to fit the recently announced Space Launch System.
Cabana and Bolden will discuss the system that NASA says will "take astronauts farther into space than ever before, create high-quality jobs here at home, and provide the cornerstone for America's future human space exploration efforts."
IMAGE: At Kennedy Space Center, the 525-foot-tall Vehicle Assembly Building is seen from the tower of NASA's new mobile launcher support structure north of the VAB. The next step will be to add ground support equipment, such as umbilicals and access arms, for future rocket launches. Credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
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