Advisory: 2011-260 Aug. 22, 2011
NASA Hosts News Conference on Upcoming Moon Mission
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WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news conference at 11 a.m. EDT (8 a.m. PDT), on Thursday Aug. 25, to discuss the upcoming launch of the Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission. Scheduled to launch Sept. 8, GRAIL will help answer longstanding questions about Earth's moon and provide a better understanding of how Earth and other rocky planets in our solar system formed.
The event will take place at NASA Headquarters in Washington. It will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website.
The news conference panelists are:
-- Jim Green, director, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington
-- Maria Zuber, GRAIL principal investigator, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
-- David Lehman, GRAIL project manager, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
-- Leesa Hubbard, teacher in residence, Sally Ride Science, San Diego
The news conference will also be streamed live, with a chat available, at: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 .
For more information about the GRAIL mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/grail and http://grail.nasa.gov .
NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information is at: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv .
DC Agle 818-393-9011
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
agle@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Dwayne Brown 202-358-1726
NASA Headquarters, Washington
Dwayne.c.brown@xxxxxxxx
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