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

[Ron Baalke]

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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