NASA Briefing on Upcoming Launch of Asteroid Belt Mission

June 20, 2007

Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726

DC Agle
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-354-0474

MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-71

NASA BRIEFING ON UPCOMING LAUNCH OF ASTEROID BELT MISSION

WASHINGTON - NASA has scheduled a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT,
Tuesday, June 26, to preview the July 7 launch of the asteroid
belt-bound Dawn mission. The briefing will be held in the NASA
Headquarters auditorium, 300 E St., S.W., Washington. It will air
live on NASA Television and be streamed on the agency's Internet
homepage at www.nasa.gov.

Dawn will launch aboard a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
The mission will investigate the asteroid belt's largest objects, the
asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres.

Briefing participants are:
-- Jim Adams, deputy director, Planetary Science Division, NASA
Headquarters, Washington
-- Keyur Patel, Dawn project manager, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL), Pasadena, Calif.
-- Chris Russell, Dawn principal investigator, University of
California, Los Angeles
-- Carol Raymond, Dawn deputy principal investigator, JPL
-- Marc Rayman, Dawn project systems engineer, JPL

Reporters at participating NASA 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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