NASA TV to Air Events That Highlight Pluto-Bound Spacecraft

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August 21, 2014 NASA TV to Air Events That Highlight Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Media and the public are invited to attend two events Monday, Aug. 25 from 1-3 p.m. EDT to learn more about the agency’s New Horizons mission to Pluto and its historic connection to the Voyager spacecraft’s visit to Neptune in 1989. The events, which will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website, will take place in the Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E Street SW in Washington. New Horizons will conduct a six -month-long study of Pluto and its five moons, including a close approach in July 2015. • The 1-2 p.m. event will feature a panel discussion with: o Jim Green, director, NASA’s Planetary Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington o Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena o Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado • The 2-3 p.m. event will include several New Horizons science team members giving personal accounts of their work during the Voyager Neptune encounter and their new assignments on the Pluto mission. Panel participants include: o Moderator: David Grinspoon, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona o Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado, Boulder o Bonnie Buratti, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California o Jeffrey Moore, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California o John Spencer, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado Media can ask questions from participating NASA locations, or by telephone. To participate by phone, reporters must contact Steve Cole at 202-358-0918 or stephen.e.cole@xxxxxxxx and provide their media affiliation by noon Monday. Media and the public can also ask questions via social media using #askNASA. For NASA TV streaming video, schedules and downlink information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv For more information on New Horizons on the Internet, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons -end-   Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@xxxxxxxx Michael Buckley Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. 240-228-7536 michael.buckley@xxxxxxxxxx   NASA news releases and other information are available automatically by sending an e-mail message with the subject line subscribe to hqnews-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. To unsubscribe from the list, send an e-mail message with the subject line unsubscribe to hqnews-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.     › Back To Top