InSight PRE-LAUNCH BRIEFING, May 3, 2018, VAFB, 4:00 pm ET

NASA will hold a pre-launch briefing for the Mars InSight mission on May 3, 2018 at 4:00 pm ET (1:00 pm Pacific Time) at Vandenberg Air Fore Base, CA.  InSight is scheduled for launch from VAFB on May 5.

The May 3 pre-launch briefing will air live on NASA TV and the agency’s website.  Participants are:

• Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters
• Bruce Banerdt, InSight principal investigator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Tom Hoffman, InSight project manager at JPL
• Annick Sylvestre-Baron, deputy project manager for InSight seismometer investigation at France’s space agency, the Centre National d’Études Spatiales
• Philippe Lognonné – InSight seismometer investigation lead at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in France
• Tilman Spohn, investigation lead at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) for the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Probe (HP3), an instrument on InSight
• Andrew Klesh, MarCO chief engineer at JPL
• Anne Marinan, MarCO systems engineer at JPL
• Stu Spath, InSight program manager at Lockheed Martin Space Systems
• Tim Dunn, launch director with NASA’s Launch Services Program
• Scott Messer, ULA program manager for NASA launches
• Col. Michael Hough, commander of the 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg
• 1st Lt. Kristina Williams, weather officer for the 30th Space Wing