GSFC Mass Spectrometer Development Team (Present and Near Past)

Paul Mahaffy/699 Bob Arvey/540-Ball Sample Analysis at (SAM) Instrument Suite Dave McClaeb/540-SGT Florence Tan/565 Instrument scientist and Aerospace SAM engineering Electronics engineer for SAM principal Senior electronics technician SAM, LADEE NMS and investigator, 699 lab chief technician, flight hardware MAVEN NGIMS, aka “Queen assembly and testing of Everything” Mike Barciniak/699 Ball Aerospace Rob Chalmers/545 Ryan Wilkinson/540- Kiran Patel/699-Mantech Senior electronics tech, Lead SAM Thermal QINETIQ Software engineer, ESD lab monitor and subsystem engineer SAM engineering development of lab and EGSE designer technician ground support equipment QMS Dan Harpold/699 Vince Holmes/543- John Bishop/540-QINETiQ Pete Piazza/547- QMS lead and expert, Bastion Technologies Engineering technician and Oceaneering contracting officer’s Lead mechanical design expert cup loader, aka “Mr. The Mars Chamber Senior mechanical technical representative for SAM, LADEE NMS and Hands” technician MAVIN NGIMS . for contracts The Planetary Environments Laboratory team and partners have Doug Hawk/540-Swales Eric Raaen/699-SGT successfully built and flown mass spectrometer instruments for Dennis Nehl/Bastion Todd King/556 Engineer, lead SAM Software engineer, lead measuring gas composition on a variety of and planetary Instrument technician, Materials engineer, hydrocarbon trap mass spectrometer missions since the 1960’s. Earth instruments include Atmospheric SAM environmental LADEE NMS and MAVEN development and testing software development Explorers B, C, D and E, and Dynamics Explorer. Other planetary testing, aka “Chris’ left NGIMS instrument atmosphere instruments include the lower atmospheres of Jupiter hand man” manager Roger Counts/323- Greg Francisco/540- ( Probe) and of Titan (Huygens Probe, gas chromatograph Marvin Noreiga/699-ADNET Rebecca Prats/699- Mantech QINETIQ mass spectrometer, GCMS); the upper atmospheres of Principal instrument engineer, Northrup Grumman Quality engineer, SAM Engineering technician, aka ( Neutral Mass Spectrometer, NMS) and Mars Lead microvalve tech and e- SAM configuration control lead quality assurance “Chris’ right hand man” (), the upper atmosphere of Titan (Cassini Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer, INMS); and a comet flyby Neutral Gas and Ion beam welding expert and documentation Benny Prats/699-SGT Mass Spectrometer (NGIMS) instrument for the CONTOUR mission. Cindy Gundersen/AMU Jeff Mobley/540-QINETIQ Currently, GSFC is developing a GCMS for the Sample Analysis at John Westberg/699- Engineering technician, Thermal systems, Engineering Honeywell design, test, and Mars (SAM) instrument on the and mass Lead mechanical engineer hardware cleaning and spectrometers for the upcoming LADEE lunar orbiter and MAVEN Principal engineer, lab contamination control integration of heaters on SAM gas processing supplies, parts ordering and sensors Mars aeronomy missions. and QMS subsystems and shipping, lab safety

Greg Frazier/460 Oren Sheinman/543 Doug McLennan/420 Mark Cascia/556 Guru Ramu/699-Honeywell Ray Bendt/699-Honeywell Engineering Project Lead SAM mechanical SAM Project Systems engineer, system Instrument engineer and Lead parts manufacturer and Management, SAM engineer, aka Management, aka “Mr. requirements, validation assembly, aka “Marvin’s right expert machinist, aka “Mr. “MacGyver” Halloween” and operation concept hand man” Hole in 1”

Chris Johnson/699- Hasso Niemann/699- Steve Feng/564 Dave Martin/599 Bob Abell/544 Emeritus Tom Nolan/Nolan Electronics engineer for Mission systems Bastion Former engineering technician Instrument scientist and Engineering SAM, LADEE NMS, and engineer and lead SAM Project engineer, SAM and master of e-beam welding, flight quadrupole mass Lead software engineer, MAVEN NGIMS systems engineer environmental testing, aka “the Legend” aka “the Chamber Maid” spectrometer design aka “God of Software” Stephanie Getty/541 James Kellogg/556- Debbie Hinkle/101 Wayne Kasperzak/699 Steve Cagiano/544 Engineer, lead time of Carol Lilly/590-SGT Systems engineer for Resources manager, Instrument scientist, mass Aerospace engineering flight mass spectrometer Senior staff engineer, SAM SAM,NMS, and NGIMS SAM resource analyst spectrometer calibration I&T engineer technician, hardware development and data analysis machinist

Dan Carrigan/699- Jerry Hengemihle/590- Jim Smith/KSC John Maurer/SPRL Micah Johnson/556-SGT Honeywell Microtel Senior mechanical engineer, Electronics engineer, Former SAM software Other Team Members (No Photo) Senior mechanical microvalve design and test Software systems engineer, QMS assembly aka “the quite one” engineer, programmer and Christa Budinoff/Visioneering-mechanical designer engineer for SAM sequence scripts Rudy Foxwell/540-Jackson&Tull-laboratory technician Steve Battell/Battell Engineering-electronics hardware Paula Everson/432 Synthia Tonn/543 Erik Mumm/Honeybee Robotics-sample manipulation system Andrew Jones/544 Requirements manager, Aerospace engineer, SAM Kyle Gregory/584 Irving Linares/564 John Bichell/555-mechanical engineering technician Aerospace engineer, high Nick Kwiatkowski/540-QINETIQ-engineering technician systems engineer, aka “the transfer lines SAM electronics engineer Electronics engineer, SAM conductance valves for harness and testing electrical lead Janelle Vorreiter/545-Orbital - thermal analyst WOA lady” Lars Hovmand/590-SGT-engineer Ryan Miller, Ken Arnett, Curt Cooper (Univ. of Michigan Space Physics Laboratory)-electronics hardware Carol Mosier/545-thermal engineer Dave Sheppard/564 Greg Hidrobo/541 Therese Errigo/546 Pat Jordan/544-Engineer Jamie Demick-Montelara Electronics engineer, Materials engineering Ray Trunzo/545-Edge Space Systems-thermal integration Lead SAM contamination SAM pyrolysis oven Former SAM calibration Dan Powers/545-thermal engineer, TECs for SAM traps technician, SAM motor technician, SAM pyrolysis engineer design and testing lead, I&T engineer Keith Corsi/300-Honeywell, SAM quality assurance controller designer ovens Joyce Manning/300-Honeywell, quality engineer

Rodger Farley/543 Jesse Lewis/543 Aerospace engineer, Aerospace engineer, Lead Significant contributions to many mass spectrometer projects from Battell Engineering, University SAM inlet design, WRPs, SAM solid sample inlet design capillary heaters and testing of Michigan Space Physics Laboratory, AMU Engineering, Honeybee Robotics and many others….