[meteorite-list] NASA Discusses Asteroid Initiative Progress at AIAA's Space 2013

[Ron Baalke]

September 9, 2013

Rachel Kraft
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
rachel.h.kraft at nasa.gov 
     
MEDIA ADVISORY M13-144
     
NASA Discusses Asteroid Initiative Progress at AIAA's Space 2013

Several NASA officials will update media Wednesday, Sept. 11, about the  
agency's progress on a proposed mission to find, capture, redirect and visit  
a near-Earth asteroid.

The briefing will take place at 3 p.m. PDT (6 p.m. EDT) at the American  
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' Space 2013 Conference and  
Exposition at the San Diego Convention Center in California. Journalists  
attending Space 2013 may attend the briefing in person. Reporters also may  
join by teleconference.

The participants are:
-- William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator, NASA's Human Exploration  
and Operations Directorate, Washington
-- Paul Chodas, Senior Scientist, NASA Near-Earth Object Program Office
-- Brian Muirhead, chief engineer, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,  
Pasadena, Calif.
-- James Reuther, deputy associate administrator for programs, NASA's Space  
Technology Mission Directorate, Washington
-- Steve Stich, deputy director of engineering, NASA's Johnson Space Center,  
Houston

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio 

Journalists who want to take part in the teleconference should contact Rachel  
Kraft at rachel.h.kraft at nasa.gov for dial-in information by noon PDT  
Wednesday.

The participants of the teleconference also are members of a Space 2013  
panel, "NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission," which will air on NASA Television  
beginning at noon PDT (3 p.m. EDT) Wednesday.

NASA's asteroid initiative continues to take shape. Recently, the agency  
chose 96 ideas it regards as most promising from more than 400 submitted in  
response to its June request for information about protecting Earth from  
asteroids and finding an asteroid humans can explore. Those ideas will be  
presented at NASA's Asteroid Initiative Idea Synthesis Workshop from Sept. 30  
to Oct. 2 at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

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

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv 

For more information on NASA's asteroid initiative, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/asteroidinitiative 

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