NASA Constellation Briefing Set to Compete With MESSENGER

NASA To Update Reporters About Constellation Program

“NASA will host a media teleconference Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 1 p.m. EDT, to brief reporters about recent developments and ongoing progress in NASA’s Constellation Program. Constellation will build the spacecraft to carry astronauts to the International Space Station and return humans to the moon by 2020.”

Editor’s note: And of course, to make certain that the media has to double up – or pick one event over the other tomorrow, this Constellation press event competes with another NASA press conference for MESSENGER:

NASA To Release Science Results, Images From Second Mercury Flyby

“NASA will hold a Science Update at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 29, to announce findings and release new images from the Oct. 6 flyby of Mercury by a NASA spacecraft. The briefing will take place in the television studio at NASA Headquarters, located at 300 E Street, S.W., in Washington. It will be carried live on NASA Television.”