Oct 4, 2006

Dwayne Brown/Erica Hupp Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726/1237

MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-154

NASA ANNOUNCES PUBLIC MEETING FOR PROPOSED MARS MISSION

NASA officials will be available Tuesday, Oct 10, from 1 to 4 p m EDT to exchange information and receive public comments about the recently released Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Mars Science Laboratory mission

The meeting will be at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, Congressional 'A' Conference Room, 400 New Jersey Ave NW, Washington

Under the proposed action, NASA would build a Mars mobile rover powered by a multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generator An alternative mission would be powered by solar arrays

Meeting participants:

-Mark Dahl, Mars Science Laboratory program executive, NASA Headquarters -Richard Cook, project manager and Aswhin Vasavada, deputy project scientist, Mars Science Laboratory, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif -Kenneth Kumor, Environmental Management Division, NASA Headquarters

The mobile robotic science laboratory is planned for launch in fall 2009 The science laboratory's mission was designed to determine if Mars has or had an environment that could support microbial life The project is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The Mars Science Laboratory draft environmental impact statement is available at:

http://spacescience nasa gov/admin/pubs/msl/index htm

For information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www nasa gov/home

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