There will be a prelaunch press conference for MAVEN at 1 p.m. EST today on NASA TV. Participants are Geoffrey Yoder, NASA deputy associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate; Omar Baez, NASA launch director; Vernon Thorp, United Launch Alliance’s program manager for NASA missions; David Mitchell, NASA’s MAVEN project manager; Guy Beutelschies, Lockheed Martin’s MAVEN project manager; and Clay Flinn, launch weather officer, 45th Weather Squadron at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
It is obvious to me that the NASA goal is to at some time in the future to colonise Mars. A worthy aim!
Hopefully it will drag us out of our obsession with this planet!
go for launch