A prelaunch press conference will be held at the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, Jan. 15, at 1 p.m. EST. The briefing will also be carried live on NASA TV; visit http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html for details.

Participating in the prelaunch briefing will be:

• Dr. Colleen Hartman, Deputy Associate Administrator, Science Mission Directorate - NASA Headquarters, Washington
• Omar Baez, NASA Launch Director/NASA Launch Manager - Kennedy Space Center
• Mike Jensen, Vice President and Chief Technical Officer - International Launch Services
• Dave Kusnierkiewicz, New Horizons Mission Systems Engineer - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
• Clay Flinn, U.S. Air Force Atlas V Launch Weather Officer - 45th Weather Squadron, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

New Horizons Mission Science Briefing

A mission science briefing will immediately follow the prelaunch press conference. Participating will be:

Alan Stern, New Horizons Principal Investigator
Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colo.

Richard Binzel, Science Team Co-Investigator
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.

William McKinnon, Science Team Co-Investigator
Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.

Dale Cruikshank, Science Team Co-Investigator
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, Calif.

Fran Bagenal, Science Team Co-Investigator
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.

New Horizons Spacecraft Briefing

A two-part New Horizons spacecraft briefing will immediately follow the mission science briefing. Participating in Part 1 will be:

Harold (Hal) Weaver, New Horizons Project Scientist
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md.

Dennis Reuter, Ralph Instrument Scientist
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

Alan Stern, Alice Instrument Principal Investigator
Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colo.

Len Tyler, REX (Radio Science) Principal Investigator
Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.

Participating in Part 2 will be:

Andrew Cheng, LORRI Instrument Principal Investigator
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md.

Ralph McNutt Jr., PEPSSI Instrument Principal Investigator
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md.

David McComas, SWAP Instrument Principal Investigator
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio

Tiffany Finley, Student Dust Counter Project Manager
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.