NEWS | November 8, 2011
NASA To Hold Media Briefing About Mars Rover Launch
The Mars Science Laboratory mission is scheduled to launch at 7:25 a.m. PST (10:25 a.m. EST), on Nov. 25. The launch period extends to Dec. 18. The spacecraft will deliver a car-size rover named Curiosity to the surface of Mars in August 2012.
News conference participants are:
* Doug McCuistion, director, Mars Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington
* Ashwin Vasavada, Mars Science Laboratory deputy project scientist, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
* Pete Theisinger, Mars Science Laboratory project manager, JPL
NASA TV streaming video, scheduling and downlink information is at: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv . The news conference will also be carried on JPL's Ustream channel, with a moderated chat, at http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl .
For more information about the new rover, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl
JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory mission for NASA.
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Guy Webster 818-354-6278
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov
Dwayne C. Brown 202-358-1726
NASA Headquarters, Washington
dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov