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NASA will host a news conference at 1800
UT, Tuesday, January 17, to announce the names selected from a
nationwide student contest for twin spacecraft that will study the moon
in unprecedented detail. The event will be held at NASA Headquarters in
Washington.
Nine hundred classrooms and more than 11,000 students from 45 states, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, participated in the contest that began in October 2011.
The agency's twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL A/B) spacecraft successfully achieved lunar orbit on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, respectively. The status of the spacecraft and upcoming plans for science operations also will be discussed.
NASA Television and the agency's website will broadcast the live event.The participants will be John Grunsfeld, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA HQ; Leland Melvin, associate administrator for Education, NASA HQ; Maria Zuber, GRAIL principal investigator, MIT, Cambridge, MA & Sally Ride, president and CEO, Sally Ride Science, San Diego along with the teacher and students who submitted the selected contest-winning names for the GRAIL spacecraft.
Nine hundred classrooms and more than 11,000 students from 45 states, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, participated in the contest that began in October 2011.
The agency's twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL A/B) spacecraft successfully achieved lunar orbit on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, respectively. The status of the spacecraft and upcoming plans for science operations also will be discussed.
NASA Television and the agency's website will broadcast the live event.The participants will be John Grunsfeld, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA HQ; Leland Melvin, associate administrator for Education, NASA HQ; Maria Zuber, GRAIL principal investigator, MIT, Cambridge, MA & Sally Ride, president and CEO, Sally Ride Science, San Diego along with the teacher and students who submitted the selected contest-winning names for the GRAIL spacecraft.
The event will be carried live on Ustream, with a live chat box available, at: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 .
For more information about GRAIL, visit: http://grail.nasa.gov/ - http://www.nasa.gov/grail/ or the GRAIL science site at MIT http://moon.mit.edu/.
For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv .
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA manages the GRAIL
mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The GRAIL
mission is part of the Discovery Program managed at NASA's Marshall
Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in
Denver built the spacecraft. JPL is a division of the California
Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
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