Montreal, Quebec, February 14, 2008 – NASA requires official accreditation from all media representatives who wish to cover this STS-123 launch event from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
All Canadian media must apply for credentials to attend the liftoff at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida or to cover the mission from other NASA centers. To be accredited, media must work for legitimate, verifiable news-gathering organizations.
Covering from KSC: Media applying for credentials at Kennedy should submit requests via the Web at https://media.ksc.nasa.gov. Media must use work e-mail addresses, not personal accounts, when applying.
Accredited media will have access from launch through the end of the mission. Application deadline for accreditation is February 21. Media with special logistic requests for Kennedy Space Center must contact Laurel Lichtenberger at laurel.a.lichtenberger@nasa.gov by February 26.
Workspace in the NASA News Center and the News Center Annex is provided on a first-come basis, with one space per organization. To set up temporary telephone, fax, ISDN or network lines, media must make arrangements with BellSouth at 800-213-4988. Media must have an assigned seat in the Kennedy newsroom prior to setting up lines. To obtain an assigned seat, contact Patricia Christian at patricia.christian-1@nasa.gov. Media must have a public affairs escort to any other Kennedy area except the Launch Complex 39 cafeteria.
In addition to the above requirements, Canadian media representatives, regardless of citizenship, must provide data including their citizenship, visa or passport number, expiration date, and alien registration number if applicable.
Media should fax requests for credentials on company letterhead to 661-276-3566. E-mailed requests to alan.brown@nasa.gov are acceptable for media who have been accredited at Dryden within the past year.
Requests must include a phone number and business e-mail address for follow-up contact.
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For more information on Dextre, please visit the STS-123 Mission Website at: www.space.gc.ca.
For more information:
Media Relations Office
Canadian Space Agency
Tel.: (450) 926-4370
NASA Public Affairs contact:
George Diller
Kennedy Space Center
Tel.: 321-867-2468
E-mail: george.h.diller@nasa.gov
