May 27 2013

From The Space Library

MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-085 - NASA DISCUSSES CURIOSITY RADIATION FINDINGS --WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, May 30, to present new findings from the Mars Science Laboratory Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) aboard the rover Curiosity. The journal Science has embargoed details until 2 p.m. May 30. The briefing participants are: -- Donald M. Hassler, RAD principal investigator and program director, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), San Antonio -- Cary Zeitlin, principal scientist, SwRI -- Eddie Semones, spaceflight radiation health officer, NASA's Johnson Space Center, Hou SwRI and Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany, built RAD with funding from NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate and Germany's national aerospace research center, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project. NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington manages the Mars Exploration Program.