Donald Savage
Headquarters, Washington, DC             July 5, 2001
(Phone: 202/358-1547)

Martha J. Heil
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
(Phone: 818/354-0850)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N01-42

REVISED - NASA'S GENESIS MISSION BRIEFING SET FOR JULY 11

     The mission and scientific goals of Genesis, a NASA 
mission to collect solar wind and return it to Earth, will be 
the subject of a news briefing Wednesday, July 11, at 2:30 
p.m. EDT. Genesis is scheduled for launch July 30 on a Delta 
rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL.

Participants will be:
*  Dr. Jay Bergstralh, Discovery Program, Office of Space 
Science, Washington, DC
*  Dr. Donald Burnett, Genesis principal investigator, 
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
*  Chester Sasaki, Genesis project manager, Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
*  Dr. Meenakshi Wadhwa, cosmochemist, the Field Museum, 
Chicago

The press briefing will originate from the James E. Webb 
Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St. SW, Washington, 
DC, and will be carried live on NASA Television with two-way 
question-and-answer capability for reporters covering the 
event from participating NASA centers. 

NASA TV is broadcast on GE-2, transponder 9C, C-Band, located 
at 85 degrees West longitude. The frequency is 3880.0 MHz. 
Polarization is vertical and audio is monaural at 6.8 MHz. 

The briefing will be webcast at: http://www.nasa.gov

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