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Get Your Free IRIS Launch Tickets

By Marc Boucher
NASA Watch
June 12, 2013
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IRIS Televised Launch Viewing at NASA’s Ames Research Center, NASA Ames
On Wednesday, June 26, NASA’s newest mission, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph or IRIS, will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. IRIS will take flight using a Pegasus XL rocket, carried aloft by an Orbital Sciences L-1011 aircraft from Vandenberg. This exciting launch will broadcast live at the NASA Ames Visitor Center at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
Registrations for attendance are available now!
Tickets are free and are first-come, first-serve. Space is limited and only ticketed guests will be admitted.

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7 responses to “Get Your Free IRIS Launch Tickets”

  1. Steve Whitfield says:
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    Hmmm… They can broadcast it live at the NASA Ames Visitor Center, but they can’t take it one simple step further and stream it onto the web?

    • Marc Boucher says:
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      I checked and it’s NOT on the listed in the NASA TV schedule. But that could change.

      • Steve Pemberton says:
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        According to the NASA media advisory, the launch will be covered live on NASA TV. Launch coverage will begin at 6:00 pm PDT, and will include coverage of the L-1011 departure and the launch of the Pegasus rocket.

        According to the Ames press release, ticket holders at Ames will get to listen to some preliminary speakers and then they will watch a feed of the live NASA TV broadcast.

        As far as I can tell the live NASA TV launch coverage will originate from Vandenberg. I’m guessing that because according to the media advisory that’s where the pre-launch news conference and mission briefing will be held the day before launch, the briefings will also be carried live on NASA TV.

        • Steve Whitfield says:
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          Thanks Steve. Now I feel silly. I went back and checked, and the June 11 media release says clear as can be that it’s going to be on NASA TV, but I managed to not read it properly. Time to slow down, I guess.

          • Steve Pemberton says:
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            It sure takes a lot of digging to find out though. I have never found the NASA TV schedule website to be very consistent when it comes to listing live events. Which is too bad because that’s where people are going to look. Most people aren’t going to go scouring the Internet for press releases and media advisories.

    • mfwright says:
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      NASA Ames has their own Ustream feed, so if no NASA stream, check here,
      http://www.ustream.tv/chann