April 12, 2006 Erica Hupp Headquarters, Washington (202) 358-1237 George Diller/Bruce Buckingham Kennedy Space Center, Fla. (321) 867-2468 MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-062 NASA ANNOUNCES KEY CALIPSO/CLOUDSAT EVENTS NASA's Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) and CloudSat satellites are set to launch at 6:02 a.m. EDT on Friday, April 21, from NASA's Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. A prelaunch news conference will be held at 4 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 19, in the main conference room of the NASA Vandenberg Resident Office, Building 840. Immediately following the prelaunch news conference, a CALIPSO/CloudSat mission science briefing will be held. Question and answer capability will be available from participating NASA centers. To ask questions by telephone from a location other than a NASA center, media only may call the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at (818) 354-5011 to receive the call-in number and passcode. For a complete schedule of pre-launch and post-launch events, media opportunities, press credentialing requirements, and TV and Web coverage, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/news/releases/2006/release-20060412.html -end- To subscribe to the list, send a message to: hqnews-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To remove your address from the list, send a message to: hqnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
