April 28, 2015
MEDIA ADVISORY M15-068
NASA to Hold Media Call on Latest Images of Pluto from New Horizons Spacecraft
NASA will host a media teleconference at 3:30 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 29
to discuss recent images returned from the New Horizons spacecraft as it
nears its historic July 14 encounter with Pluto. Officials also will provide
an update on the timeline and significance of images the mission team will
receive in the coming weeks.
Participants will be:
* John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for the Science Mission
Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington
* Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator, Southwest Research
Institute, Boulder, Colorado
* Hal Weaver, New Horizons project scientist, Long Range Reconnaissance
Imager telescopic camera instrument team, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics
Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland
To participate by phone, media must contact Laurie Cantillo at
202-358-1077
or
laura.l....@nasa.gov and provide their media affiliation no later
than 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at:
http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio
For information about NASA's New Horizons mission, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons
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