NASA News Release N96-75
November 6, 1996

NASA's Director of Space Transportation, Gary Payton, and the Vice President for Lockheed Martin's Reusable Launch Vehicle Program, T.K. Mattingly, will hold an informal meeting at 11 a.m. EST on Wednesday, November 13, to discuss program status and answer questions on the X-33 -- the flagship technology demonstrator in NASA'S Reusable Launch Vehicle Program.

The meeting will be held at NASA Headquarters, 300 E Street, SW, Washington, DC, in a fourth floor conference room (Room 4W23). Due to space limitations, and in order to preserve the informal nature of the meeting, cameras will not be permitted. Separate arrangements will be made to accommodate television needs, if any.

The meeting will follow an X-33 government and industry Preliminary Design Review being conducted,this week in California to formalize the engineering baseline of the X-33 vehicle prior to moving on to the detailed design phase. The vehicle is scheduled to begin flight tests in the spring of 1999.