Donald Savage
Headquarters, Washington, DC June 3, 1999
(Phone: 202/358-1547)
Donna Drelick
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
(Phone: 301/286-8955)
Gary Dorsey
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
(Phone: 410/516-7160)
NOTE TO EDITORS: N99-35
FUSE MISSION SCIENCE BRIEFING SET FOR JUNE 8
Hoping to discover how the basic elements of the
universe came into existence, NASA will launch the Far
Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) on June 23 from
Cape Canaveral Air Station, FL. Scientists will use FUSE to
study primordial chemical relics of the Big Bang, from which
all the stars, planets and life evolved.
FUSE team members will brief reporters on the mission at
1 p.m. EDT June 8. The briefing will originate from the James
E. Webb Memorial Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St.
SW, Washington, DC. NASA Television will broadcast the
briefing live with two-way question-and-answer capability
from participating NASA centers. Panelists will be:
-- Dr. George Sonneborn, FUSE Project Scientist, NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center
-- Dr. Warren Moos, FUSE Principal Investigator, Johns
Hopkins University
-- Mr. Dennis McCarthy, FUSE Project Manager, Johns
Hopkins University
-- Dr. Andrea Dupree, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics
-- Dr. Kenneth Sembach, Johns Hopkins University, FUSE
science team member
NASA Television is broadcast on the GE2 satellite which
is located on Transponder 9C, at 85 degrees West longitude,
frequency 3880.0 Mhz, audio 6.8 MHz. Audio of the broadcast
will be available on voice circuit at the Kennedy Space
Center on 407/867-1220.
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