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NASA Administrator Visits Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
May 05, 2011

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden visited NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno
spacecraft on Thursday, May 5, 2011, at the Astrotech payload processing
facility in Titusville, Fla. The solar-powered Juno spacecraft will
orbit Jupiter's poles 33 times to find out more about the gas giant's
origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.

Juno will be carried into space aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V
rocket, lifting off from Launch Complex-41 at the Cape Canaveral Air
Force Station in Florida. The launch period opens Aug. 5, 2011, and
extends through Aug. 26. For an Aug. 5 liftoff, the launch window opens
at 8:39 a.m. PDT (11:39 am EDT) and remains open through 9:39 a.m. PDT
(12:39 p.m. EDT).

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Juno
mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of Southwest
Research Institute at San Antonio. The Juno mission is part of the New
Frontiers Program managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in
Huntsville, Ala. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the
spacecraft. Launch management for the mission is the responsibility of
NASA's Launch Services Program at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

Additional information about Juno is available at
http://www.nasa.gov/juno .

DC Agle 818-393-9011
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
agle{at}jpl.nasa.gov

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