Media Briefing Invitation

“A New Golden Age of Space Exploration” – An Address by Dr. Ronald D. Sugar, Northrop Grumman Chairman, CEO and President

When: Wednesday, November 9, 2005 12:30 p.m. EST

Where: National Press Club – Holeman Lounge
529 14th Street N.W., Washington, D.C.

RSVP: By close of business on Tuesday, November 8, 2005

Gus Gulmert
Manager, Corporate & International Communications
Northrop Grumman Corporation
(703) 875-8450 (phone), or
(703) 243-3190 (fax), or
gus.gulmert@ngc.com

History has shown that space exploration accelerates a nation’s progress. While much current debate focuses on the cost of space exploration, there may be greater risks if the nation does not pursue a serious space exploration program incorporating both robotic and human missions. Today, we have the best opportunity in decades to start a new golden age of space exploration, but will the United States be at the forefront of this great challenge?

Northrop Grumman Chairman, CEO and President Dr. Ronald D. Sugar offers his insights to these and other critical space exploration questions in an address at the National Press Club. These timely remarks examine how space exploration and the challenge it represents can lead to solutions to many of the current and future challenges here on earth.

A buffet lunch will be available beginning at noon. The speech starts promptly at 12:30 p.m.

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DIRECTIONS TO THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB (NPC)

From the Metro:
Take the Metro Rail to Metro Center Station
Take 13th Street Exit – go up the escalator
Turn left on 13th Street & walk one block to F Street
Turn right & walk one block to 14th Street
Turn left & enter NPC Building – go to the 13th floor

From the South:
Take 95 North to I-395 North
Follow signs to 14th Street & exit onto 14th Street
Pass the Bureau of Engraving & Printing & the Washington Monument
Cross Pennsylvania Avenue. The NPC is on the right next door to the J.W. Marriott Hotel at the corner of 14th & F Streets

From the North:
Take 95 South to the Baltimore Washington Parkway – South
Exit at New York Avenue (Route 30)
Follow New York Avenue to 14th Street NW and turn left
The NPC Building is at the corner of 14th and F Streets