MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov
Contact: Jane Platt
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 5, 1998
JPL EVENING LECTURES HIGHLIGHT ICY AND FIERY SPACE DESTINATIONS
Three varied solar system locations--the Sun, Pluto and
Jupiter's moon Europa--will be featured in two free public
lectures on Thursday, May 14 at 7 p.m. in JPL's von Karman
Auditorium, and on Friday, May 15 at 7 p.m. in The Forum at
Pasadena City College. Seating is limited and will be on a first-
come, first-served basis.
The lectures, entitled "Ice & Fire: Traveling to Difficult
Solar System Destinations," will feature the three planned
missions of the Outer Planets/Solar Probe project. The three are
Europa Orbiter, a mission to look for evidence of liquid oceans
on Jupiter's icy moon, Europa; Solar Probe, which will travel
closer to the Sun than any previous spacecraft; and Pluto-Kuiper
Express, which will fly by Pluto and its moon Charon, and
possibly into the Kuiper Disk, the cold, dark outer fringes of
our solar system. The three missions are tentatively scheduled
for launch between 2003 and 2007
The lectures will be presented by Robert Staehle, deputy
manager for the Outer Planets/Solar Probe project. Staehle
previously served as Ice and Fire Preprojects manager. His space
exploration career began when his student experiment "Bacteria
Aboard Skylab" flew on the first American space station. With his
aeronautical and astronautical engineering background, Staehle
worked on the Voyager mission and contributed to lunar and
planetary exploration studies. He learned from a variety of
industries how to cut mission development costs and lead time
dramatically, knowledge well-suited to the goals of the Outer
Planets/Solar Probe missions.
Please note that the lectures on Deep Space 1, originally
scheduled for May 14 and 15, have been rescheduled for August 20
at JPL and August 21 at PCC. The speaker will be Dr. Marc Rayman,
chief mission engineer and deputy mission manager.
This lecture is part of the von Karman Lecture Series
sponsored monthly by the JPL Media Relations Office. A web site
on the lecture series is located at
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/lecture. For directions and other
information, call the Media Relations Office at (818) 354-5011.
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