[NASA HQ News] NASA to Hold Media Call Today to Discuss New Horizons Mission Plans Following Spacecraft Anomaly

July 06, 2015  MEDIA ADVISORY M15-103 NASA to Hold Media Call Today to Discuss New Horizons Mission Plans Following Spacecraft Anomaly NASA will host a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT today to discuss the New Horizons spacecraft returning to normal science operations after a July 4 anomaly. The mission remains on track to conduct the entire close flyby sequence as planned, including the July 14 flyby of Pluto. Participants in the teleconference will be: Jim Green, director of Planetary Science, NASA Headquarters, Washington Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado Glen Fountain, New Horizons project manager, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland To participate by phone, reporters must contact Steve Cole at 202-358-0918 or stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov and provide their media affiliation no later than 2 p.m. Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio For information about the New Horizons Mission visit: http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons -end- NASA news releases and other information are available automatically by sending an e-mail message with the subject line subscribe to hqnews-request@newsletters.nasa.gov. To unsubscribe from the list, send an e-mail message with the subject line unsubscribe to hqnews-request@newsletters.nasa.gov.