[FPSPACE] FW: NASA Targets GLAST Launch For June 7

[LARRY KLAES]

>From: KSC News Center <ksc at newsletters.nasa.gov>
>To: KSC News Center <ksc at newsletters.nasa.gov>
>Subject: NASA Targets GLAST Launch For June 7
>Date: Mon Jun  2 18:00:01 EDT 2008
>
>June 2, 2008
>
>Katherine Trinidad
>Headquarters, Washington
>202-358-3749
>katherine.trinidad at nasa.gov
>
>George H. Diller
>Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
>321-867-2468
>george.h.diller at nasa.gov
>
>Rob Gutro
>Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
>301-286-4044
>robert.j.gutro1 at nasa.gov
>
>MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-111
>
>NASA TARGETS GLAST LAUNCH FOR JUNE 7
>
>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA has set June 7 as the new target launch
>date for the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, from
>Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The launch window
>extends from 11:45 a.m. to 1:40 p.m. EDT and remains unchanged
>through Aug. 7.
>
>NASA had targeted June 5 for the GLAST launch aboard a Delta II
>rocket. Additional time was necessary for the Delta II launch team to
>assure that open engineering issues, which have been under review,
>are satisfactorily resolved.
>
>The GLAST prelaunch news conference is planned for 1 p.m. on Thursday,
>June 5, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center News Center. Question and
>answer capability will be available from participating NASA
>locations.
>
>The placement of remote cameras at Pad 17-B is planned for 1 p.m. on
>Friday, June 6. On launch day, news media should meet at 10:30 a.m.
>at the Space Florida parking lot outside Gate 1 of Cape Canaveral Air
>Force Station.
>
>Launch commentary on NASA Television's Media Channel 103 will begin at
>9:45 a.m. on June 7. For complete NASA TV downlink information,
>schedules and links to streaming video, visit:
>
>http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
>
>For more information about the GLAST mission, visit:
>
>http://www.nasa.gov/glast
>
>
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