NASA Joins Musician will.i.am, Discovery Education for Premiere of Song from Mars

Aug. 24, 2012

Ann Marie Trotta/Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1601/1726
ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov / dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov

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NASA JOINS MUSICIAN WILL.I.AM, DISCOVERY EDUCATION FOR PREMIERE OF SONG FROM MARS

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold an educational event to share findings
about Mars with students and premiere a new song by musician
will.i.am that will be broadcast from the surface of the Red Planet
via the Curiosity rover. The event will take place at 1 p.m. PDT (4
p.m. EDT) Tuesday, Aug. 28, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
in Pasadena, Calif.

Members of the team that successfully landed the rover on Mars earlier
this month will explain to students the mission and the technology
behind the song's interplanetary transmission. will.i.am will then
premiere "Reach for the Stars," a new composition about the singer's
passion for science, technology and space exploration.

will.i.am's i.am.angel Foundation, in partnership with Discovery
Education of Silver Spring, Md., a provider of digital resources to
kindergarten through grade 12 classrooms, will announce a new
science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics initiative
featuring NASA assets such as the Mars Curiosity Rover.

The event will be streamed on the agency's website and broadcast on
NASA TV at:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

Media attending the event will be able to ask questions. Media
interested in attending must contact the JPL Media Relations office
by 9 a.m. PDT, Tuesday at 818-354-5011. Reporters who have responded
must arrive by 11:30 a.m. for admittance to the event. JPL is located
at 4800 Oak Grove Drive.

NASA's Curiosity rover continues to reach new milestones as it begins
its exploration mission to help scientists discover if Mars has ever
been hospitable to life.

For more information about Curiosity and Mars exploration, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/mars

For more information about NASA's education programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/education


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