Sarah Ramsey
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1694
sarah.ramsey@nasa.gov
Roz Brown
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo.
303-533-6059 or 720-581-3135
rbrown@ball.com
Chris Chavez
United Launch Alliance, Denver
303-269-5550 or 303-332-6416
chris.s.chavez@ulalaunch.com
MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-154
NASA DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR VISITS INTERNS FROM BALL AEROSPACE AND UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE IN COLORADO
Companies Give Interns Hands-On Experience For Jobs Of The Future
WASHINGTON -- NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will visit Ball
Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colo., on Tuesday, July
26, to meet with summer interns from Ball and United Launch Alliance
(ULA). Garver will view demonstrations of student-built rockets and
payloads and discuss how hands-on experience for students is critical
to developing experience for science and technology-related jobs of
the future.
Reporters are invited to attend the demonstration and speak with
Garver at 2:30 p.m. PDT on Tuesday. Those wishing to attend should
contact Roz Brown at 303-533-6059 or rbrown@ball.com to be badged and
escorted to the event's location.
Over the last seven weeks, more than 100 high school and college
interns built the high-power rockets and a variety of multi-faceted
payloads as part of their experience at the two companies. This is
the third year the Ball Intern Rocket Scientist Team (BIRST) has
partnered with ULA to offer students a chance to work through an
entire program's life cycle from design to launch. The students will
launch six student-built rockets with 20 payloads on July 30. Four of
those payloads were built by the BIRST participants.
All the rockets were built by ULA summer interns -- dubbed SPIRIT (Sky
Piercing Intern Rock-It Team) -- in Denver, Decatur, Ala., Harlingen,
Texas, Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and Cape Canaveral,
Fla. This is the fourth year ULA interns have built and launched
high-power rockets as a summer project.
Ball Aerospace works with NASA on many critical science missions,
including the James Webb Space Telescope and the NPOESS Preparatory
Project satellite, scheduled to launch on Oct. 25. United Launch
Alliance partners with NASA to launch payloads to space, including
the Aug. 5 launch of the Juno mission to Jupiter. ULA and NASA
recently signed a new agreement to share data on the potential for
human rating a ULA Atlas V launch vehicle as part of the Commercial
Crew Development program.
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