August 21, 2014
Media and the public are invited to attend two events Monday, Aug. 25 from 10 a.m. - noon PDT (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 10-11 a.m. PDT (1-2 p.m. EDT) event will feature a panel discussion with:
- Jim Green, director, NASA's Planetary Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington
- Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
- Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado
- The 11 a.m.-noon PDT (2-3 p.m. EDT) 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:
- Moderator: David Grinspoon, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona
- Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Bonnie Buratti, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
- Jeffrey Moore, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
- John Spencer, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado
Media and the public can also ask questions via social media using #askNASA.
For NASA TV streaming video, schedules and downlink information, visit:
http://ift.tt/Id6pTj
For more information on New Horizons, visit:
http://ift.tt/1pkDuQi
Preston Dyches Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-7013 preston.dyches@jpl.nasa.gov Dwayne Brown NASA Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Michael Buckley Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. 240-228-7536 michael.buckley@jhuapl.edu 2014-284
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