Donald Savage<br />Headquarters, Washington June 5, 2003<br />(Phone: 202/358-1727)<br /><br /><br />George H. Diller<br />Kennedy Space Center, Fla.<br />(Phone: 321/867-2468)<br /><br /><br />Veronica McGregor<br />Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.<br />(Phone: 818/354-5011)<br /><br /><br />NOTE TO EDITORS: N03-056<br /><br /><br />NASA NAMES MARS ROBOTIC ROVERS<br /><br /><br /> NASA will announce the names of the two Mars <br />Exploration Rovers, at a special event, Sunday, June 8 at <br />10:00 a.m. EDT at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla., <br />Press Site auditorium.<br /><br /><br />NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, LEGO Senior Vice President <br />Brad Justus, and the elementary school student who submitted <br />the rover's names, will participate in the event. The <br />winning names were selected from more than 10,000 student <br />entries in a contest managed for NASA by the LEGO Company. <br /><br /><br />The first of the two Mars Exploration Rovers, MER-A, is <br />scheduled for launch no earlier than Sunday, June 8 at <br />2:05:55 p.m. EDT. <br /><br /><br />To attend the event, contact the KSC newsroom at: 321/867-<br />2468.<br /><br /><br />For information about NASA, Mars Exploration Rovers, and <br />space flight on the Internet, visit:<br /><br /><br />http://www.nasa.gov