NASA Sets Briefings for Tomorrow on Planets, Commercial Crew
Today NASA announced two press briefings that will take place tomorrow, Tuesday, December 20.
- One will be an announcement of new discoveries by NASA’s Kepler space telescope that is searching for planets around other stars — exoplanets. Participants in the news teleconference at 1:00 pm EST (listen to the live stream at http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio) are:
- Nick Gautier, Kepler project scientist, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif.
- Francois Fressin, lead author, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass.
- David Charbonneau, professor of astronomy, Harvard University
- Linda Elkins-Tanton, director of the Carnegie Institution for Science’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism in Washington.
- The other is on a completely different topic — a status report on NASA’s commercial crew program (thanks to NASAWatch for publicizing it). That “forum” will be held at Kennedy Space Center in Florida from 11:00 – 11:30 am EST (note that the original announcement incorrectly said it ended at 11:30 pm, but was later modified). From the description, it sounds like a very brief recap of the announcement last week about the new commercial crew strategy.
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