NASA Announces Media Briefing About Next Earth Science Mission
WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media briefing on Thursday, Jan. 20, at 1 p.m. EST, about the agency's next Earth-observing satellite mission, Glory, scheduled to launch on Feb. 23. During the briefing at NASA Headquarters in Washington, panelists will discuss the spacecraft's mission to study the impact of the sun and airborne particles on Earth's climate.The panelists are:
- Joy Bretthauer, Glory program executive, NASA Headquarters,
Washington
- Bryan Fafaul, Glory project manager, NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center, Greenbelt, Md.
- Michael Mishchenko, Glory project scientist, NASA Goddard Institute
for Space Studies, New York
- Greg Kopp, Total Irradiance Monitor instrument scientist, University
of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
- Brian Cairns, Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor instrument scientist, NASA
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
The briefing will be held in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA
Headquarters, 300 E St. SW, Washington. Media representatives unable
to attend in person may ask questions from participating NASA
locations or by telephone. To participate by phone, reporters must
contact Trent Perrotto at 202-358-0321 or at
trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov by 9 a.m. on Jan. 20.
The news conference will air live on NASA Television and the agency's
website. For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling
information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For more information about Glory, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/glory
Source: NASA
