NASA Invites Media to Prototype Rover Photo Opportunity

[KSC News Center <ksc@mediaservices.nasa.gov>]

June 8, 2012

Amber Philman
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
321-867-2468
amber.n.philman@nasa.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M27-12

NASA INVITES MEDIA TO PROTOTYPE ROVER PHOTO OPPORTUNITY

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Media are invited to a briefing and photo 
opportunity at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, June 12, at the Press Site 
television auditorium at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to 
view a prototype of a lunar prospecting mission.

The Regolith and Environment Science and Oxygen and Lunar Volatile 
Extraction, or RESOLVE, consists of a lunar rover and drill provided 
by the Canadian Space Agency to support a NASA payload that is 
designed to prospect for water, ice and other lunar resources. 
RESOLVE also will demonstrate how future explorers can take advantage 
of resources at potential landing sites by manufacturing oxygen from 
soil. 

Journalists will have an opportunity to photograph the hardware, as 
well as interview NASA and Canadian Space Agency officials.

NASA will be conducting field tests in July outside of Hilo, Hawaii, 
with equipment and concept vehicles that demonstrate how explorers 
might prospect for resources and make their own oxygen for survival 
while on other planetary bodies. 

Journalists without Kennedy accreditation must apply for credentials 
by 4 p.m. June 11. International media accreditation for this event 
is closed. Badges for this specific event can be picked up at 
Kennedy's Badging Office on State Road 405. Media must apply for 
credentials online at:

https://media.ksc.nasa.gov  

For more information about NASA's exploration plans, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/exploration

For more information about Kennedy, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/kennedy  

	
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