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For Release: August 17, 1999
Media Advisory m99-168a


NASA TO HOST HOUSTON CONFERENCE EXPLORING 
COMMERCIAL INTEREST IN SPACE STATION LIVING QUARTERS

     NASA has invited private industry to Houston from Aug. 24 - 
26 to participate in a conference that will explore potential 
commercial interest in a government and industry partnership to 
build the crew habitation module for the International Space 
Station. The Habitation Module Commercialization Conference will 
be held at the Nassau Bay Hilton and Marina Hotel, 3000 NASA Road 
1, Houston.  The conference will explore the formation of a 
commercial consortium that would own, use and maintain all or part 
of the module.  NASA would be one of many module users and 
customers of the consortium.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Dwayne C. Brown 
202/358-1726.

Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX:  James 
Hartsfield 281/483-5111.

For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1999/99-094.txt 

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