NASA to Hold Media Call Today to Discuss New Horizons Mission Plans Following Spacecraft Anomaly

NASA will host a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT today to discuss the New Horizons spacecraft returning to normal science operations after a July 4 anomaly. The mission remains on track to conduct the entire close flyby sequence as planned, including the July 14 flyby of Pluto.

Participants in the teleconference will be:

– Jim Green, director of Planetary Science, NASA Headquarters, Washington

– Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado

– Glen Fountain, New Horizons project manager, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland

To participate by phone, reporters must contact Steve Cole at 202-358-0918 or stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov and provide their media affiliation no later than 2 p.m.

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at:
http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

For information about the New Horizons Mission visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons