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Jet JUly Propulsion 2009 Laboratory volume 39

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Lab’s history at the continues 40 years after , with current and future efforts Forty years ago, a pair of American became the first humans to set foot on another world. But before JPL roles recalled Apollo 11’s “giant leap for mankind” on July 20, 1969, JPL had helped paved the way to ’s natural satellite with the Ranger and Surveyor robotic . Yet it almost didn’t happen that way. After NASA was created in 1958, the new agency asked JPL for a blueprint of the missions the Lab proposed to build and fly. The Lab responded with a plan that emphasized early flybys and orbiters to Venus and ; less ambitious targeting the moon were sprinkled in when the planets were out of reach. NASA, though, believed the first priority had to be closer—and less ambitious—and direct- ed JPL to set its sights first on getting to the moon. The Lab already had experience in that realm. In De- cember 1958, only two months after NASA began func- tioning, JPL and the Army Ballistic Missile Agency—the same team that had launched America’s first satellite, —sent aloft , a cone-shaped probe intended to fly past the moon. Due to a launch-vehicle error, it never escaped Earth orbit and fell back over Africa. , an identical probe, was more success- ful when it was launched in March 1959. Passing within 37,300 miles of the moon, Pioneer 4 sailed on and has been in orbit around the sun ever since. That set the stage for the Rangers of the early 1960s. This ambitious series by JPL was the United States’ first effort to develop an attitude-stabilized platform capable of providing power, thermal control, sequencing and data handling for a payload of science instruments. The goal of the Ranger missions was to send pictures and other data to Earth as they approached the moon, ultimately execut- ing a planned crash-landing. Little did JPL’s leadership know that the project would also lead the Lab into its darkest days. When and 2 were launched in August and Above: In this Nov. 19, 1969, photo, November 1961, the second stage of the Agena B rockets mission commander Pete failed to restart, leaving them stranded in low-Earth orbit. Conrad retrieves parts from JPL’s Sur- On the positive side, JPL engineers noted that in their veyor 3, which had landed on the moon brief flights they believed the basic spacecraft design— about three years earlier. The lunar complex for the day—would work. “They both worked the module, visible in the distance, touched way they were supposed to, but they didn’t get to where down within about 180 meters of Survey- they were supposed be,” said JPL veteran John Casani, or 3. Conrad and lunar module pilot Alan the design team leader for the Ranger spacecraft. Bean, who shot the photo, retrieved But the next four Rangers also failed for various rea- ’s television camera and sons. Following six consecutive failures, Congress held sampler scoop for return to Earth. hearings to look into why the United States’ space labora- 1963 1966 tory was falling flat on its face. Congress released a report criticizing JPL’s management structure, which led, among other changes, to the creation for the first time of the After ’s mission in 1968, JPL turned its Lab’s deputy director position. attention to more distant targets, but in recent years Thankfully for the beleaguered JPL workforce, Ranger 7 was a crowning success. On , 1964, it captured the moon has once again become a focus for the Lab. Continued on page 2 2 Moon Continued from page 1 more than 4,300 pictures from six cameras as it de- the initial triumph in different sites and successively of the moon, which could help scientists determine the scended to hit the moon in a plain, soon named Mare added a robot arm with scoop and a chemical element composition of the moon’s interior, as well as give a view Cognitum, of the crater Copernicus. The new analyzer to the scientific tool kit. to Earth’s early history.

n iimages v e r s revealed e that craters caused by impact were the In November 1969, the crew of Apollo 12 used the JPL is also taking part in Lunar Reconnaissance Or- U dominant features of the moon’s surface, even in the Surveyor 3 site to improve their high-precision landing biter, a Goddard Space Flight Center–managed mission seemingly smooth and empty plains. navigation. Surveyor 3, launched in April 1967, had the that launched from Cape Canaveral June 18. JPL de- Rangers 8 and 9 were equally successful. In February distinction of being the first robotic spacecraft to be signed and built the Diviner lunar radiometer, which will and March 1965, they flew toward other impact sites visited by astronauts, who cut off portions of Surveyor’s be used to create a thermal map of the moon—providing on the moon, sending back a total of 13,100 images camera and brought them back to Earth to analyze. data crucial for understanding the potential of water ice confirming that the lunar landscape consisted of rolling Upon inspection in the lab, scientists found inside the as well as for future operations and exploration. JPL will contours of craters upon craters. Surveyor 3 camera what they believed to be a common power up Diviner around July 5 for the first time since Around that time, Casani recalls, some JPLers toyed bacteria, Streptococcus mitis. The announcement was a launch. briefly with the idea of taking a page from the Soviets contentious finding in the science community, but if true, Still ahead is another lunar mission—the Gravity Re- and sending another species of mammal to the moon the bacteria is the only known survivor of unprotected covery and Interior Laboratory, or Grail, set to launch in as a precursor to landing humans. “What they were space travel, having gone through launch, space vacuum, September 2011. This mission will use twin spacecraft proposing was that we land some dogs on the moon in three years of radiation exposure and no nutrient, water to orbit the moon in tandem, making highly precise mea- little dog space suits,” explained Casani. “They figured or energy source. No other life forms were found in soil surements of the lunar gravity field. The design is based that the dogs could be trained to do things once they got samples retrieved by the Apollo missions or by two Soviet on JPL’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, or down there.” The idea was quickly dropped when it sank unmanned sampling missions. Grace, currently in orbit around Earth. The mission team in what the dog-loving public reaction to leaving canines After Surveyor 7’s mission in 1968, JPL turned its at- hopes to determine the structure of the lunar interior stranded on the moon would be. tention to more distant targets, but in recent years the and provide more information about the thermal evolu- Following Ranger was a far more ambitious project— moon has once again become a focus for the Lab. By tion of the moon. Maria Zuber of MIT is the mission’s soft landing on the moon. The Surveyor spacecraft also the 1990s, JPL scientists participated in lunar missions principal investigator, with the spacecraft to be built by marked the first time JPL sent a flight project outside to managed by other facilities, such as the Department of Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver. be designed and built by a subcontractor—in this case, Defense’s lunar orbiter and Ames Research And JPL has a hand as well in NASA’s current hu- . Like Ranger, Surveyor had Center’s Lunar . JPL scientists also conducted man exploration program. JPL’s Exploration Systems its travails. But the first Surveyor made a flawless land- other moon-related studies, such as ground-based obser- and Technology Office is leading JPL’s contributions to ing at in Procellarum in , vations that resulted in the detection of solid-body tides NASA’s , which also includes pro- sending back 11,240 frames from a remote-controlled and a fluid lunar core. gram integration and mission operations support. Moon- TV camera. With Surveyor 1 NASA had the answer to a Today a lunar renaissance of sorts is in progress at based astronauts, for example, could make use of robotic critical question: Would the lunar surface support the JPL—taking the Lab back to its 1960s roots. In Octo- surface vehicles such as JPL’s All-Terrain Hex-Limbed weight of the Apollo astronauts’ landing spacecraft? ber 2008, India launched its first robotic mission to the Extra-Terrestrial Explorer, better known around the Lab was not as successful, crashing into the moon, Chandrayaan 1, carrying JPL’s Moon Mineralogy as “Athlete.” moon, while ’s signal was lost 2-1/2 minutes Mapper, a state-of-the-art imaging spectrometer. The So later this month, when the news media features after lunar impact. But Surveyors 3, 5, 6 and 7 repeated mission is primarily looking for the mineral composition reports about the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, you can keep in mind that JPL has been—and is definitely once again—moonstruck. Today the Moon . . . Tomorrow Mars. Into the future

Below: Artist’s concept of Grail, which will fly twin spacecraft in tandem orbits around the moon for several months to measure its grav- ity field in unprecedented detail.

Above: This August 1964 image taken at Goldstone Tracking Station to celebrate the suc- cess of Ranger 7 shows, from left, then-JPL Deputy Director Luedecke, Director William Pickering, Assistant Laboratory Director for Lunar and Planetary Projects Robert Parks and Ranger Project Manager Harris “Bud” Schurmeier. Signs on the back wall reading “Today the Moon” and “Tomorrow, Mars” refer to Ranger 7’s successful mission and their high hopes for 4, the first Mars mission, which was launched in November 1964.

Above, right: JPL’s Ranger 7 took this image, the first picture of the moon by a U.S. spacecraft, on July 31, 1964, about 17 minutes before impacting the lunar surface. The Rangers were designed solely to take high-quality pictures of the moon and transmit them back to Earth in real time. The images were used for scientific study as well as for selecting landing sites for the Apollo missions. Ranger 7 transmitted 4,308 high-quality images over the last 17 minutes of flight. 3 n i v e r s e U Phaeton helping early career hires achieve big goals By Brian Frank

Phaeton team members are joined by former engineering and science director Pete Theisinger, above left, and JPL Director Charles Elachi, first row left. Carol Lachata / JPL Photolab

It started Halloween night in 2007 when Benjamin The Phaeton Mast Dynamics project will measure and the ground up. “When you first get to the Lab, you get Solish, who had been employed at the Lab for about six characterize the dynamical behavior of the 10-meter pigeonholed into one area,” said the aforementioned months, drew the short straw among his peers and fired boom of the NuStar project. “I’ve been exposed to a lot Solish, one of those who worked early on to develop off an e-mail to JPL Director Charles Elachi. of the Phase C and D work but never been exposed to the Phaeton concept and is now a systems engineer for “Dear Dr. Elachi,” it began, “as you may know, the Phases A and B,” said Lauren Halatek of the Measure- Trained. “Phaeton is not just networking, it’s understand- X Prize Foundation recently released a challenge to the ment Systems Group, the Phaeton Mast Dynamics proj- ing how the Lab is put together and how it works.” engineering community to send a rover mission to the ect manager. “[Phaeton] is a great learning experience,” moon. Our team, all early career hires at JPL, is excited Halatek said. “I have a lot more respect for those who “The ways the new generations of engineers to answer that challenge.” Early career hire is a desig- have been here a long time and make it look so easy.” learn and interact are different from when nation for employees three years out of college. With the help of mentors, a group of early career hires The e-mail contained a request to use JPL facilities to helped secure Phaeton’s second project by developing I came out of college. They are a lot more savvy compete in the and cited that this the winning proposal in response to a NASA solicita- in the use of information technology resources would be a chance for younger employees “to gain valu- tion last December for an in-house project team to fly and social networking, so they can acquire able end-to-end experience on a small-scale mission, an Earth- or space-science payload to be launched by knowledge much more rapidly. Phaeton pro- which would greatly benefit our future work at JPL.” It the agency’s Sounding Rockets Program Office in the vides them an environment to excel.” was signed “The Phaeton Explorer Team,” followed by second quarter of 2010. The winning proposal, called Johnny Kwok, Phaeton Program Manager the names of seven early career hires. Terrain Relative Navigation and Employee Development, To their surprise, the Phaeton Explorers received an or TRaiNED, gives the team the to work e-mail back from Elachi requesting to meet with them. with Wallops Flight Facility to launch the payload at the Phaeton members are not only gaining exposure to During the meeting Elachi took their shoot-for-the-moon White Sands Missile Range, N.M. project formulation, they’ve also embraced the roles enthusiasm and channeled it instead into creating a “The Phaeton Program gave a group of early career often reserved for JPLers with technical lead experience. one-of-a-kind training program that would achieve their hires an opportunity to learn the JPL formulation pro- Since hired last year, Darren Michaels has gone from de- original objective. After several months of brainstorming cess from a group of senior experienced mentors,” said signing analog circuits for the Orbiter to becom- and iterations with upper management and Elachi, the Don Heyer, the project manager for TRaiNED. “The fact ing lead electrical engineer on an instrument that will Phaeton Program was born. that we won just makes it even more rewarding.” measure the dynamics of a flexible boom during space The group’s recommended approach for the program The latest Phaeton project, Optical Planetary Access flight. After securing his position at JPL and graduating included developing small payloads in the range of $2 for Space Station, is currently in concept develop- from Caltech with a master’s degree in electrical engi- million to $5 million with a life cycle of about three ment. This project will validate optical acquisition and neering, the prospect of working on a major flight proj- years and a start date separated by about one year. tracking algorithms and mechanisms intended for use ect so quickly out of school excited Michaels. “Here [at Participants will be assigned multiple positions on Pha- at Mars by placing an instrument on the International JPL], it’s more of providing good science,” he said. “It’s eton projects in different phases of mission life cycle— Space Station. Calls for participants were announced not about competition; it’s about doing a good job.” projects are to mimic JPL flight projects but be staffed in June and selection is ongoing for a team of about 10 “The ways the new generations of engineers learn by early career hires in key positions, including those in early career hires. and interact are very different from when I came out of business and human resource management. Each year The Phaeton experience isn’t limited to the Lab’s po- college,” Phaeton Program Manager Johnny Kwok said. the program will solicit early career hires with half- to tential future engineers. “They are a lot more savvy in the use of information three-quarter time on the program for a period of up to “Phaeton isn’t only for the technical side, it’s also technology resources and social networking, so they can 18 months. for the business side,” noted Hosanna Aroyan, project acquire knowledge much more rapidly. Phaeton provides The plan also calls for a Phaeton advisory board to resource analyst and business administration manager them an environment to excel.” annually down-select project concepts, and for the re- for Phaeton. Aroyan, also an early career hire, believes Although the idea to compete against industry for cruiting and funding of mentors in a 1:1 to 1:2 ratio with learning to manage the business components of flight Google’s $30-million-dollar prize purse was rebuffed, early career hire participants. projects through Phaeton will pay dividends for the Lab the ambition and drive of those young engineers was With an institutional blessing and committed funds for over time. “Hopefully this will become more the norm, apparent and rewarded with the formation of Phaeton. two projects, Phaeton formally debuted in September where communication between line and project on the As Elachi said at Phaeton’s open house last year: “Bring 2008 with a core group of 19 early career hires selected business side will be clearer,” she said. the best people, provide them support, and get out of the out of 70 applicants. Now the program has grown to Supplying business and flight project experience to way.” about 25 early career hires with a third project in con- early career hires was a complex notion that came from For more information about the Phaeton Early Career cept definition. Hire Development Program, visit http://phaeton. 4 Lichten to lead Division 33 Susan Kurtik, Leslie Tamppari, Stephen Unwin, of the highest customer-satisfaction ratings in Steven Wissler. the government, this award tells us we’re on the News Steve Lichten has been named manager of the Scientific and Technical Excellence: Harlow right track.” Communications, Tracking and Radar Division 33. Ahlstrom, Todd Bayer, Pablo Narvaez, Ernesto NASA’s Web team also was among the honor- With JPL since 1983, Lichten most recently Rodriguez, Scott Shaffer, Simone Tanelli, John ees for Rich Media/Advertising for its multimedia served as Division 33 deputy manager. He was Ziemer. commemoration of NASA’s 50th anniversary, n i v e r s e riefs also manager of the Tracking Systems and Appli- http://www.nasa.gov/50years. The feature, hosted U B Effective Business Management: Todd Cetti, cations Section, leading the organization through Martin Ramirez. by the robot Automa, includes an interactive challenging infusions of advanced ground and Effective Partnerships and Relationships: Wil- news conference with the original Mercury flight technologies, including the implementation liam M. Greene. astronauts, music from across the decades and of delta-differential one-way ranging tracking and Also bestowed were the following winners of an “appearance” by renowned astronomer Carl 34-meter arraying into the Deep , the Edward Stone Award for Outstanding Re- . and the delivery of 12 GPS flight instruments search Publication, which is administered by the over a two-year period to multiple projects. He Office of the Chief Scientist: has also served as the supervisor of the Earth Peter Eisenhardt, Mark Swain. Orbiter Systems Group and managed numerous For information on JPL’s awards program, NASA and non-NASA technology and implemen- visit http://hr.jpl.nasa.gov/compensation/reward/ tation tasks. He has authored more than 130 bonus.cfm. publications and secured four patents. Lichten was on the team that won the NASA site wins Webby Software of the Year Award in 2000 and was also on the JPL software team that was inducted into The Cassini mission Web site, http://saturn.jpl. the Space Technology Hall of Fame in 2004. nasa.gov, has received a Webby award for best Steve Lichten science site. NASA Honor Awards More than 500,000 people cast online votes for the Webbys, which are presented by The JPL employees, contractors and partners from International Academy of Digital Arts and Sci- industry and universities received recognition ences. Also among the winners was NASA’s of individual and team accomplishments from Web site, which won the People’s Voice award for calendar year 2008 at JPL’s annual NASA Honor best government Web site as it also did in 2003. Awards ceremony in June. “The Cassini site is the door to the science and Boris Oks For a list of the honorees, visit http://hr.jpl. technology of the mission to , contained Rideshare effort hailed nasa.gov/compensation/reward/nasahonor.cfm. in hundreds of thousands of pages,” said Alice Wessen, manager of Cassini public engagement Boris Oks of the Web Applications Development More kudos for at JPL. “The site houses all the latest news, Group was recently honored by the Los Angeles JPL’s Mars Phoenix was a recent winner science findings and images Cassini returns as it County Metropolitan Transportation Authority for of two Rotary National Awards for Space Achieve- orbits Saturn. The public can see every picture his efforts that contributed to the success of JPL’s ment, which were bestowed by the Space Center within eight hours after it’s beamed down from rideshare program. Rotary Club of Houston. the spacecraft.” Oks received honorable mention in ceremo- The awards, which honor individual and team “We’re extremely happy to be honored by the nies recognizing Pasadena employers for their achievements in human and robotic Internet community this way,” said Brian Dunbar, outstanding employee rideshare programs. He programs, went to the Phoenix project team the content manager for http://www.nasa.gov. designed a program that made the Lab’s trans- for “Outstanding technical excellence and team “We’ve always tried to focus the site on giving portation survey process easier for employees to dedication enabling another first for the United the public what they’re looking for in an engag- complete online, including a tracking feature to States space program by the successful polar ing and compelling way. Combined with some show who has and hasn’t completed a survey form. mission around another celestial body” and to Barry Goldstein for “Outstanding contributions as the Phoenix Project Manager, leading to the suc- cessful Mars landing followed by unprecedented scientific findings from the north polar region of Mars.”

Explorer Awards bestowed

Recent ceremonies honored JPLers named win- Phoenix Project Scientist Leslie Tamppari ners of the Lab’s Explorer Award, which recognize

significant individual technical/business accom- Carol Lachata / JPL Photo Lab and Project Manager Barry Goldstein plishments or outstanding performance. The accept Rotary Awards. criteria are generally based on the focus areas Senior research scientists meet of the JPL Implementation Plan. The monetary JPL Director Charles Elachi (far right), Associate Chief Scientist Cinzia Zuffada (second from left) and Moustafa Chahine (third from award is $5,000. The honorees: Strategic Leadership: Douglas , Lau- left) recently met with JPL’s 2008 senior research scientists for a roundtable discussion. The awardees are, from left, L. Douglas Bell, reano Cangahuala, Kevin Endo, Robert O. , Kasthuri Venkateswaran, Son Ngheim, Rosaly Lopes, Linda Brown, Abhinandan Jain, James Williams and Klaus Havelund.

By Alex Abels speed and direction for about 90% of the Earth’s surface. QuikScat: recalling JPL’s can-do QuikScat is also used for weather and storm forecasting, a function that agencies like National Oceanic and Atmospheric JPL recently celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the The critical need was to procure wind measurements from Administration have come to heavily rely on because of the launch of Quick Scatterometer, or QuikScat, a recovery mission space, something scientists waited over a decade to acquire instrument’s near-real-time data. that replaced the NASA Scatterometer instrument on Japan’s and finally had a taste of with the Japanese mission. Scientists, Graf emphasized that one of the most important aspects of Advanced Earth Observation Satellite when it failed in 1997. as well as those forecasting the weather and following storms, this mission was everybody’s willingness to take a risk. “I think “It’s really an example of the kind of spirit here at JPL, that became wedded to the nine months of data from the NASA Scat- that all of us at JPL need to remember that we’re in a risky even things that seem impossible to do, we have been able to terometer and were at a loss when it failed. Luckily, JPL was business. What we do is hard, but we shouldn’t shy away from do,” said JPL Director Charles Elachi at the anniversary event able to line up everything they needed—instrument, spacecraft, taking on these hard, difficult, risky roles,” he said. “This mis- in von Kármán Auditorium on June 16. procurement and a strong management team—to put together sion shows we succeed quite often.” The entire mission was pulled together in record time and a successful and speedy recovery mission. Graf got the official QuikScat has suffered a few minor hardware failures recently, launched in June 1999, a mere two years after the initial go-ahead on QuikScat in November 1997 and was fully ready for but is still as accurate as it was a decade ago, according to cur- failure, giving the mission its “quick” name. “You had a criti- launch in November 1998, meaning all of the heavy lifting was rent Project Manager Rob Gaston. “I continue to be very opti- cal need, and to address that critical need, you had a series of done in 12 months. mistic about the mission,” said Gaston at the anniversary event. elements that came together in a fast solution,” said Jim Graf, QuikScat continues to operate to this day, even though the He recently helped submit a proposal for a four-year funding JPL deputy director for Earth science and technology and the original mission success criteria were to get one year’s worth extension of the mission. original QuikScat project manager. “I’m not sure that you will of data and to operate for two years. Since its launch, QuikScat Just last year, QuikScat received the esteemed William T. ever see that again.” has provided detailed global measurements of surface wind Pecora Award, given by the Department of Interior and NASA. 5 ‘’ brings 12-year-old n i v e r s e

for a visit to Mars Science Lab U rover she named By Alex Abels

Clara Ma’s curiosity will make her name her today, she’s still absorbing it and asking known all the way from Earth to Mars. intelligent questions.” The 12-year-old student from Lenexa, Kansas, Clara’s mother, Lisheng Cao, said she couldn’t signed her name in both English and Chinese be prouder of Clara, who is always looking for to JPL’s rover June 8 a challenge. “I feel like this is unbelievable. I in the clean room where it is being assembled. didn’t think things like this happened,” said Cao. Clara named the rover “Curiosity” in the na- Her mother—who said she didn’t even know tional essay contest that she won, which was Clara had entered the contest until she became sponsored by NASA and the Walt Disney Studios a finalist—was also the first in the family to Motion Pictures flick “Wall-E.” learn that Clara had won when she received Clara came to JPL with her parents and sister a phone call from NASA. Renny overheard the Renny, 11, June 8 to meet the engineers work- conversation and, although she said she tried to ing on the newly named rover. “It’s really excit- keep it a secret from her sister, yelled the good ing!” said Clara of her trip to California. “It’s a news to Clara before their mother could. “I just Tom Wynne / JPL Tom Photo Lab big honor to meet everyone involved, it’s just started screaming and running up and down the amazing.” stairs with my sister,” recalled Clara, whose Clara and her family first went to the Mars JPL visit with her family also included a tour of Yard, where they got to see a full-sized model of the In-Situ Instruments Lab and a meeting with Curiosity in a rocky, Mars-like setting, and en- JPL Director Charles Elachi. gineers showed Clara exactly where she would Clara’s essay was one of about 9,000 submit- sign the rover, which is planned for a fall 2011 ted from students nationwide. She heard about launch. Later, Clara donned a bunny suit in the the contest in class at Sunflower Elementary clean room and signed the inside of the rover School, and sent in her name idea and essay with a marker. over the Internet at home. The engineers said they were impressed with Before signing the rover, Clara reiterated Dutch Slager / JPL Photo Lab Clara and her relative calm throughout the some of the sentiments from her essay and Top: Clara Ma holds a wheel from the Curiosity rover, which is under assembly. Her mother, Lisheng Cao, is at whole process. “It’s great to have a kid so inter- made clear that she does not plan for her curi- right; at left is Jaime Waydo of the Mechanisms and Mobility Group, who helped host the 12-year-old during her ested in everything we’re doing here,” said Julie osity to end here. “Curiosity is the beginning of visit. Bottom: Clara, left, and her sister, Renny, visit with JPL Director Charles Elachi as Mars Exploration Director Townsend, a systems engineer for the robot arm learning,” she said. “It motivates us to learn and Fuk Li looks on. on Curiosity. “With everything we’ve thrown at to discover.”

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VanCA St., Nuys, Arminta 16615 VitasHospice, to memory his in tions dona- of requestsconsideration ily newsletter.monthly JPL/Caltech Retireesof Associated the to Ormly” “Warmly,titled column a contributed years many for Locke Gumfudgin,” most needed. most was it when time a providedat you kindness Weappreciatethe it. truly at look we time every rememberher will we but missed, be will She plant. lovely the for also you Thank time. stressful very this during mendously treus - comforted appreciated,and much so is us gave you agement encour and support Revere.The mother,Margaretmy of passing recentthe on messages cardsand heartfelt the for JPL at colleagues windowsill. our on blooming still is JPL by sent was orchidthat The life. my in him have to fortunate was I and Lab the at happenings the with up kept aeronauticalalways engineer,an he father’smy As after death. support their for 343 Section in friends my time at JPL/CIT a joy.a JPL/CIT at time my made have done have we missions the all and with worked have I people the all met, have I people the all that say me let individually,so one each thank hereand up stand could I way no thereis JPL at friends my of all with know over.I is tryout the grandchildrenconcluded later,16 we childrenand four years, Forty-seven pre-Interstate).was (that California for left and Fordconvertible 1956 a into possessions Tomour son loaded 6-month-old our and pregnantwife my I, 1962, November in try.So year one- a it give and offer the take to decided I and Betty month. per $610 of sum staggering the for associate engineering an as job offereda was subsequently and Shipley Bill with interviewed I JPL. included which fair,aerospacejob an for ad an saw and boroughof Philadelphia suburban the in apartment small our of kitchen the in newspaper the readingwas I ago years Forty-seven successful. missions our make to hardso worked have who staff tive administra- and engineers scientists, of community entireJPL/Caltech Tofriend. the and mentor my being for Casani John to me, in put they confidence the Tofor me. NASA affordedthey opportunity the for Lou Jean and ToEd port. Charles, sup- complete their for friends and Hansen worked at JPL from1951 JPL at worked Hansen Locke’swereheld. fam- services No Thank you to all our friends and friends our all to you Thank many to gratitude and thanks owe I Thank you: To my first wife, family wife, Tofirst you: my Thank etters Bill and Jessica RevereJessica and Bill Allen Halsell Allen TomGavin - R Memorial Fund. Memorial Transfigurationthe Church of the or Association Lung American the consideredto be donations gests Arcadia.Hansen’sin sug- family 30 May held was service memorial grandchildren.A 10 as well as Brakeman, Hansen Kristen and Wiger,Berger,Kim GreggHansen Kerry Hansen, childrenEric and contact. of out fell who officers ing aid- and responsetime shortening patrolcars, locate to police by used was that NASA, by patented system, a inventing creditedwith was he careerhis Observer.During Mars extremely grateful! Thanks again! 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Section years, 20 Chong, Wing-Sang 5126; Section years, 20 Milton, 2632; Section years, 22 333G; tion Strain, Martha Hammer, 2123; Section years, 35 343D; tion retiredJune: in employees JPL following The He is survived by his wife, Joyce, wife, his by survived is He Thank you to whomever found the found whomever to you Thank my of all thank to like would I father,my of recentpassing The JPL my all to Sincerethanks David Skinner,David Rob and Mary Miller and family and Miller Mary and Rob etirees Charles and Beverly Naudet Beverly and Charles 34 years, Section 3170; Section years, 34 Stephen Giacoma, Stephen Deborah McCarthy,Deborah 23 years, Sec- years, 23 36 years, Sec- years, 36 KarenCallum Anita Serrato Anita Ronald Fred

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