NASA Briefing to Preview Jupiter Flyby of Pluto Mission

Jan. 11, 2007

Dwayne Brown/Tabatha Thompson
Headquarters, Washington
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Michael Buckley
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md.
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NASA BRIEFING TO PREVIEW JUPITER FLYBY OF PLUTO MISSION

WASHINGTON - NASA will host a news briefing at 1 p.m. EST, Thursday,
Jan. 18, to preview the flight of the Pluto-bound New Horizons
spacecraft through the Jupiter system. The briefing will take place
in the NASA Headquarters auditorium, 300 E St., S.W., Washington. The
briefing will air live on NASA Television and streamed at

www.nasa.gov.

New Horizons will use Jupiter's gravity to boost its speed toward the
outer solar system, while training its cameras and sensors on the
giant planet and its moons during a six-month encounter.

Briefing participants:

- James Green, acting director, Solar System Division, NASA
Headquarters, Washington
- Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator, Southwest Research
Institute, Boulder, Colo.
- John Spencer, New Horizons Jupiter Encounter science team deputy
lead, Southwest Research Institute
- Glen Fountain, New Horizons project manager, Johns Hopkins
University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md.

Reporters at participating agency field centers will be able to ask
questions. For more information about NASA TV, streaming video,
downlink and schedule information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

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