NASA Coverage of Neil Armstrong Service at National Cathedral

Sept. 12, 2012

Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-2191
allard.beutel@nasa.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-178

NASA COVERAGE OF NEIL ARMSTRONG SERVICE AT NATIONAL CATHEDRAL

WASHINGTON -- NASA will provide special live programming of the public
memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral to honor the
life and career of astronaut Neil Armstrong at 10 a.m. EDT, Thursday,
Sept. 13. The memorial will be broadcast live on NASA Television and
streamed online by the agency's and National Cathedral's websites.

NASA Television will air two high-definition feeds of memorial
starting at 9:45 a.m. NASA TV's Public Channel (channel 101) will
carry the service, complete with on-screen identification fonts of
the participants. The agency's Media Channel (channel 103) will
broadcast a clean feed. NASA TV's Education channel will carry the
complete service in standard definition.

Also during the live broadcast of the service, NASA's Chief Historian,
Bill Barry, will conduct an online chat on UStream that will provide
additional information about the speakers at the memorial and their
connection to Armstrong and NASA. To view the chat, visit the NASA
Public Channel page on UStream at:

http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, NASA Deputy Administrator Lori
Garver, dignitaries, community and political leaders, members of the
Armstrong family and members of the NASA family, including current
and former astronauts, will pay respects to Armstrong.

Bolden, former Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snow, and Eugene
Cernan, the Apollo 17 mission commander and last man to walk on the
moon, will offer tributes. Armstrong's Apollo 11 crewmate and command
module pilot, Michael Collins, will lead prayers. Popular jazz
singer-songwriter Diana Krall is scheduled to sing at the service.
Other musicians include the U.S. Navy Band "Sea Chanters," the
Cathedral Choir, and the Metropolitan Opera Brass. The Right Rev.
Mariann Edgar Budde will offer a homily in honoring the life of the
first man to walk on the moon, who died Aug. 25.

Washington National Cathedral is a historic landmark symbolizing the
role of faith in America and its iconography tells the stories that
have shaped the nation's identity. Armstrong, along with fellow
astronauts Collins and Buzz Aldrin, presented the National Cathedral
with a moon rock brought back during their Apollo 11 mission. The
presentation took place in a July 21, 1974 service commemorating the
fifth anniversary of the first lunar landing. The iconic Space Window
that later would display the sliver of lunar rock also was dedicated
at that service. To learn more about the Washington National
Cathedral, visit:

http://www.nationalcathedral.org

For NASA TV downlink information, schedules and links to streaming
video, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For additional information about Armstrong and his career, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov


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