[meteorite-list] NASA Hosts NASA TV News Briefing on Upcoming Mars Mission (MAVEN)

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:31:03 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201310231631.r9NGV3fC025367_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

October 23, 2013

Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726
dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov

Nancy Neal-Jones
Goddard Space Flight Center. Greenbelt, Md.
301-286-0039
nancy.n.jones at nasa.gov
     
MEDIA ADVISORY M13-162
     
NASA Hosts NASA TV News Briefing on Upcoming Mars Mission

NASA will host a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT Monday, Oct. 28, to discuss the
upcoming launch of the agency's next mission to Mars and the first devoted to
understanding the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet.

The briefing on the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission
will take place at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St. SW in Washington, and air
live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

MAVEN is scheduled to launch at 1:28 p.m. EST Nov. 18 from Cape Canaveral Air
Force Station in Florida. MAVEN's data will be used to study the history and
change of Mars' atmosphere, climate, and planetary habitability.

Briefing participants are:

- John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for the Science Mission
Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington
- Jim Green, director, Planetary Science Division, Headquarters
- Lisa May, MAVEN program executive, Headquarters
- Kelly Fast, MAVEN program scientist, Headquarters
- Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator, University of Colorado Boulder
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
- David Mitchell, MAVEN project manager, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, Md.

Journalists unable to attend in person may ask questions from participating
NASA locations, join by phone, or send questions via Twitter using the
hashtag #askNASA. To participate by phone, reporters must contact Steve Cole
at stephen.e.cole at nasa.gov with their media affiliation by 1 p.m. Monday.

For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

For more information about the mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/maven

and

http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/maven/

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