NASA Hosts Teleconference on Status of Mars Program Options

Dwayne Brown

Headquarters, Washington           

202-358-1726

dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference 3 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 25, to provide details of a summary report provided by the Mars Program Planning Group (MPPG).

The MPPG was established to aid with planning for the agency's future Mars Program within available future budgets.

The teleconference participants are:

-- John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington

-- Orlando Figueroa, MPPG team lead

Media representatives can request dial-in information by sending their name, affiliation and phone number to stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov by 2:30 p.m. Sept. 25.

The summary report will be posted an hour before the teleconference on NASA's MPPG webpage, at http://www.nasa.gov/offices/marsplanning/home/index.html.

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

For information about NASA's Mars Program, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mars.

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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, fourth from left, accepts a montage from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, third from left, during a meeting at the Blair House as Associate Administrator for Science and former astronaut John Grunsfeld, left, Associate Administrator for Education and former astronaut Leland Melvin, second from left, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronauts Koichi Wakata and Satoshi Furukawa, right, look on, Monday, April 30, 2012, in Washington.

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