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Media Invited to National Kickoff of NASA's Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium

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Thursday, February 20, 2020

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --NASA will kick off the Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium an element of the agency's Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative at a workshop hosted by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, on Friday, Feb. 28.

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  • WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --NASA will kick off the Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium an element of the agency's Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative at a workshop hosted by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, on Friday, Feb. 28.
  • Universities and businesses will contribute to the Artemis program via the consortium and collaborate with NASA to make recommendations for a cohesive, executable strategy for developing and deploying technologies required for successful lunar surface exploration.
  • APL operates the Lunar Surface Innovation Consortiumin collaboration with NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate under the Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative.
  • For information on the Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium and kickoff meeting, visit:
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NASA Hosts Science Chat on Upcoming Historic Planetary Encounter

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Monday, September 17, 2018

The Sept. 19 event will be livestreamed from the New Horizons Mission Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.

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  • The Sept. 19 event will be livestreamed from the New Horizons Mission Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.
  • It will air on Facebook Live , NASA Television, Ustream , YouTube and the agency's website .
  • For the upcoming flyby, the mission team is planning to come three times closer to Ultima than it did Pluto.
  • Participants in the Science Chat include:
    Alice Bowman, New Horizons mission operations manager, APL
    For information about NASA's New Horizons mission, visit: