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Doc Mirelson
Headquarters, Washington       July 9, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-1600)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N03-065

NAVY RECOGNIZES COLUMBIA ASTRONAUT

     The National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) is dedicating 
and naming the organization's redesigned auditorium to honor 
NASA astronaut Laurel Clark, a crewmember on the Space 
Shuttle Columbia. Clark, a captain and flight surgeon in the 
U.S. Navy medical corps, perished along with six other 
astronaut crew members on Feb. 1, when the Columbia broke up 
over Texas.   

The dedication ceremony is Friday, July 11 at 2:30 p.m. The 
ceremony will be in the Building 10 amphitheater, NNMC, 8901 
Wisconsin Ave, Bethesda, Md.

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, Associate Administrator for 
Space Flight Bill Readdy, and several astronauts will 
represent the agency at the dedication ceremony.

By dedicating the auditorium in Clark's name, the NNMC 
salutes and celebrates her memory, and the courage, 
commitment, and dedication she demonstrated to Navy medicine 
and NASA's human space flight program through the life she 
led. Clark was an accomplished and experienced Naval Flight 
Surgeon, and she completed NNMC's Graduate Medical Education 
program.

Media desiring access to the ceremony should contact NNMC 
public affairs prior to 10 a.m. EDT, July 11 at: 301/295-
5727.

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