NASA Hosts News Conference on Upcoming Moon Mission

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Advisory: 2011-259 Aug. 22, 2011

NASA Hosts News Conference on Upcoming Moon Mission

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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-260&cid=release_2011-260

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news conference at 11 a.m. EDT (8 a.m. PDT), on Thursday
Aug. 25, to discuss the upcoming launch of the Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)
mission. Scheduled to launch Sept. 8, GRAIL will help answer longstanding questions about Earth's
moon and provide a better understanding of how Earth and other rocky planets in our solar system
formed.

The event will take place at NASA Headquarters in Washington. It will air live on NASA Television
and the agency's website.

The news conference panelists are:
-- Jim Green, director, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington
-- Maria Zuber, GRAIL principal investigator, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
-- David Lehman, GRAIL project manager, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
-- Leesa Hubbard, teacher in residence, Sally Ride Science, San Diego

The news conference will also be streamed live, with a chat available, at:
http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 .

For more information about the GRAIL mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/grail and
http://grail.nasa.gov .

NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information is at: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv .

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