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The of new discoveries Mission to the asteroid belt launches this summer

By Mark Whalen

JPL is now close to embarking on another of its Boosted by a gravity assist from in March trademark, one-of-a-kind missions, this time to 2009, the will arrive at in September the heart of the asteroid belt. 2011, where it will orbit and explore for about eight The Dawn mission is being prepared for launch this sum- months, then continue to Ceres for a February 2015 mer from Kennedy Space Center. encounter. The mission is scheduled to end in July of Dawn will explore Ceres and Vesta, the two largest known that year with Dawn remaining in orbit around Ceres. asteroids in our solar system, which lie in the vast The allure of Ceres and Vesta lies in their distinct expanse between Mars and . In the process, characteristics. Ceres shows a primitive surface with the mission will make history on several fronts. evidence of water content, indicating that this body is Besides being the first spacecraft to orbit a representative of the icy moons of the outer planets, main-belt asteroid and the first to ever orbit while Vesta appears dry and evolved, with surface two targets after leaving Earth, Dawn will be the features that include a huge crater at the south pole, first science mission powered by electric ion propulsion, as well as lava flows. the world's most advanced and efficient space propulsion “Vesta and Ceres are the two most massive aster- technology. Ion propulsion was validated on JPL’s Deep oids, each individually interesting and quite different Space 1 mission, conducted from 1998 to 2001. from each other,” noted Russell. “They are the obvi- “Ion propulsion for this mission is the enabling technol- ous pair to study first. Moreover, they are close to the ogy and that’s what made this mission fit into the Discovery ecliptic plane and accessible. Dawn represents the Mission requirements,” noted Dawn Project Manager Keyur fourth time we proposed a dual body rendezvous/orbit- Carol Lachata Carol / JPL Photolab Patel. “We’ve done anything and everything in the design, al mission. The first three times, Vesta and Ceres were development and testing of the system to make sure too far apart in the sky for such a dual rendezvous. it’s successful.” Beginning with a launch between 2005 and 2007, the "I have full confidence in this system,” added Chris- dual Vesta–Ceres visitation became possible.” topher Russell of UCLA, Dawn’s principal investiga- Russell added that the science team has been think- “We’ve done anything tor. “The major technical challenge is to operate in deep ing “very hard” about the nature of Vesta and Ceres, space for 10 years, with sufficient reserve that when sur- having taken telescopic and meteoritic data and using and everything in prises occur, we can respond to them whether these sur- them to make models of the two bodies. “The team the design, develop- prises are unexpected scientific discoveries or operational consists of some of the best experts on these two difficulties.” minor planets, who know everything one could possibly ment and testing The spacecraft is currently undergoing closeout activities know about them from existing data. One thing we all at Astrotech Space Operations near Kennedy Space Cen- agree on is that we are going to be surprised many of the system ter. Patel said two solar arrays — stretching to about 20 times over when we reach Vesta and Ceres, because all meters (66 feet) — were integrated the third week of May, the existing knowledge is incomplete.” to make sure it’s after which the and xenon will be loaded to fuel JPL built Dawn’s ion propulsion system and other successful.” the mission. A flight readiness review was scheduled for components of the spacecraft. Currently, about 90 to the week of May 27. Finally, spin-balance testing will occur 100 JPL employees and affiliates are preparing the Dawn Project Manager for the spacecraft prior to its integration with the launch mission for launch, in addition to 80 to 90 from Orbital vehicle for the June 30 liftoff. Sciences Corp., which built the spacecraft. Keyur Patel Continued on page 2 2 dawn Continued from page 1 In the Astrotech Space Op- erations facility, technicians Two JPLers, Carol Raymond and Alex Konopliv, are members of the Dawn science verify that a computer chip team. Raymond is also the mission’s deputy principal investigator. is securely bonded to a side

niverse A little over a year ago Dawn was reinstated after having been canceled due to brace on the Dawn space- U technical and cost issues. “The project and the institution responded to the inde- craft. The chip holds pendent assessment team’s findings and we put a replan forward to get the project the names of more than restarted,” said Patel. “Headquarters approved the replan, which included a number 360,000 space enthusiasts of risk-mitigation activities. We have systematically gone through and performed the worldwide who signed up to tasks we agreed to do according to the new plan, and that has given everybody a lot participate in a virtual voy- of confidence in us being able to succeed. age to the asteroid belt and is “This hasn’t caused a delay in our launch plan,” he added. “The team really about the size of a nickel. stepped up and put in the extra hours and effort to get this solved.” This is Patel’s first project manager position. He’s been at JPL since 1985, when he came in as an academic part-timer to contribute to the Voyager system. After graduation from Cal Poly Pomona a year later, he worked on Voyager’s attitude control flight software and was the attitude control subsystem engineer for the spacecraft’s Neptune encounter. Later, he worked on Topex/Poseidon and Mars Observer, spent a few years in line management, then went back to flight project work with StarLight and Spitzer, and most recently before Dawn, was deputy project manager and project engineer on . Patel noted that as a child his passion was airplanes, and all of his education has been concentrated in that area. “I wanted to be an aerospace engineer,” he said. However, he noted, “After I came here in the summer of 1985, I’ve never looked back. I wouldn’t do anything else.” Open House 2OO7

About 32,000 people attended JPL's open house May 19–20 and enjoyed a wide variety of exhibits and attractions. Among the most popular were the Robo-Dome, a pair of 700-pound robots in a high- tech arena under artificial stars in Building 199 as part of the Universe theme area, and Mars ex- hibits on JPL’s past, present and future rovers and orbiters. tibility of state-of-the-art 3 microelectronics for use Shuttle awaits in future NASA projects. He was also the JPL

lead for the NASA Safety niverse U Reliability and Quality ex-JPLer By Mark Whalen Assurance Nondestruc- tive Evaluation Program. Olivas preparing for Olivas credited his time at JPL with helping June 8 Atlantis launch him learn “how NASA works, how budgets As a boy, John “Danny” Olivas would join his dad up on the work, how spacecraft roof of their house in El Paso, Texas, and use his small tele- are built.” “I’ve been very fortu- scope to view the wonders of the dark skies, dreaming of one nate; I had a lot of good day making a personal journey to the stars. opportunities to work That goal is now almost here for the former JPL employee, who is sched- with dynamite people uled to make his first flight in June after being selected for and I think that really helped me progress in my career,” he said. “If you’ve the astronaut program in 1998. Olivas, who turned 42 on May 25, will join got the right people around you to support you, you can do pretty much five other astronauts on the STS-117 mission aboard Atlantis on a flight to everything.” the International Space Station. Launch is scheduled for June 8 at 4:38 p.m. During Johnson Space Center training Olivas’ most recent position was lead Pacific time. of the Hardware Integration Section of the Space Station Branch, with re- The crew of that 11-day shuttle flight will install a new truss segment, re- sponsibility for ensuring proper configuration and integration of future station tract a set of existing solar arrays and unfold a new set on the starboard side modules and visiting vehicles. Previously, he had served in the Extravehicular of the station. A mission specialist, Olivas will make two of the three space- Activity Branch, supporting research focused on developing materials, tools walks scheduled for the flight. and techniques to perform on-orbit shuttle repair. Olivas joined JPL in 1996, following completion of his doctorate in me- Olivas said he likes the Earth-based portion of an astronaut's job description: chanical engineering and materials science from Rice University. His first JPL interacting with the public and helping others to realize their potential, espe- position was as a senior engineer in the Quality Assurance Section, where his cially children, who need to understand why it’s important to study science. research included the development of tools and methodologies for nondestruc- He noted in a recent interview that straight A’s in school are not a require- tively evaluating microelectronics and structural materials subjected to space ment for success at NASA or anywhere else, recalling his own struggles. “I’m environments. He was then promoted to program element manager of JPL’s no different than they are,” he said. “I had the same kind of challenges and Advanced Interconnect and Manufacturing Assurance Program, a research ef- decisions they do. If I can do it, they can do it.” fort that included investigations aimed at evaluating the reliability and suscep-

JPL fared well in NASA’s recent selections Delwyn Moller: An Interferometric Ka- Submarines, and Other In Situ Observa- for the Research Opportunities in Space and band Synthetic Aperture Radar: A New tions. Ignatius Rigor of the University of Earth Sciences 2006 International Polar Technique for Glacier and Ice-sheet Topog- Washington is principal investigator. Year solicitations. Out of the 92 proposals raphy Mapping. Kwok: Sea Ice Roughness As An Indica- submitted, NASA opted to fund 33. JPL sub- Son Nghiem: The State of Arctic Sea Ice tor of Fundamental Changes In the Arctic mitted 16 principal investigator–led propos- Cover: Integrated Decadal Satellite Obser- Ice Cover: Observations, Monitoring and als, 10 of which were selected. vations of Properties and Processes in a Relationships to Environmental Factors. Lab garners Six of the winners were from JPL’s Divi- Changing Environment. James Maslanik of the University of Colo- sion 33, with two each from Division 32 and Eric Rignot: High-Frequency Radar rado is principal investigator. funding for Division 38. JPL also submitted nine co- Sounding of Glaciers In Greenland and Dong Wu: The Roles of Gravity Waves investigator proposals, of which three were Antarctica for Force and Mass Balance In the Polar . Varavut Lim- International selected. Calculations. pasuvan of Coastal Carolina University is The selected JPL principal investigators Leslie Tamppari: Antarctic Dry Valley principal investigator. Polar Year and their winning proposals: Soil/Ice History and Habitability. This solicitation offered opportunities Ziad Haddad: Combining Measurements Xiaoping Wu: Ice Mass Variations From for research to contribute to the objec- proposals From CloudSat’s Radar, Aqua’s Advanced Mi- Multi-Satellite and Interdisciplinary Data. tives of the International Polar Year for crowave Scanning Radiometer-E and NOAA’s International Polar Year proposals were the period March 2007 to March 2009. Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B To also solicited in the education and public NASA estimated that total funding for the Estimate Precipitation In Polar Regions. outreach area, and two from JPL were selected investigations will total $18 mil- Ronald Kwok: Satellite Observations of Sea selected. Anita Sohus will lead Polar Lit- lion to cover three programmatic years of Ice: Pan-Arctic Ice Export and Assessment eracy Networks, while Richard Shope is research activity. Of Sea Ice Models. the principal investigator for Exploring Ice For more information on the proposals, Michael Mahoney: An Uninhabited Aerial In the Solar System: Arctica Science Re- visit http://nspires.nasaprs.com. Vehicle Microwave Temperature Profiler for search Projects for Urban Use. A workshop for the selected principal International Polar Year. Three proposals were selected with JPL investigators to present their work to Mahoney: Microwave Temperature Profiler co-investigators: JPLers is planned for the month of June. Support for Oracle-O3 Activities. Kwok: Assessment of Sea Ice Thickness Please log on to http://dailyplanet.jpl. Estimates Obtained From Satellites Using .gov for more details. 4

niverse Going U Lab honored for ongoing energy conservation green

By Mark Whalen

Matthew Berbee (left) and Mark Gutheinz accepted Flex Your Power's Best Overall Award on behalf of JPL.

Gutheinz discussed the Laboratory’s efforts to lower energy consumption while saving money doing it.

Q: What measures did Facilities Engineering and Construction staff take in the past year to achieve this significant energy savings and cost savings?

A: One major effort was to install variable speed drives on air handlers and cooling tower fans, in addition to using variable speed chillers and chilled water For its successful efforts in energy conservation, JPL has been pumping. We also used premium-efficiency motors on all replacement and new named a “Flex Your Power” award winner for 2007 in the Best applications, and installed T5 highbay lighting and 3rd-generation 25 watt T8 Overall category. lighting, technologies that use considerably less power than our older lighting system. Each year, the Flex Your Power Awards go to companies, governmental entities and other organizations that have demonstrated leadership and results in saving energy. Flex Your Power, California’s statewide energy efficiency marketing and Q: How will the Lab’s agreements to implement future Southern California outreach campaign, is a partnership of the state’s utilities, residents, businesses, Edison efficiency programs work? institutions, government agencies and nonprofit organizations working to save A: There are several aspects to this. First, the Laboratory entered into a energy. Savings By Design (new construction) contract with Edison, in which JPL is Flex Your Power said JPL “has taken a characteristically high-tech approach implementing maximum efficiency design in the new Flight Projects Center. to energy efficiency. In 2006 JPL completed a wide range of efficiency measures Incorporating the latest technologies in lighting, heating, ventilation and air con- resulting in over 4.2 million kilowatt-hours in annual energy savings, $379,660 ditioning, as well as windows and insulation, JPL will reduce the new building’s in cost savings and 3.3 million pounds of carbon dioxide reduction. JPL worked load by 200 kilowatts and 1 million annual kilowatt-hours. In addition, the Flight closely with Southern California Edison’s engineering staff to make major Projects Center will receive a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design upgrades to heating, ventilation and air conditioning, and lighting and motor Gold certification. efficiency. JPL has entered into contracts for future SCE efficiency programs Then through Edison’s Retro Commissioning Program, JPL and Edison identi- affecting new construction, retro-commissioning and industrial efficiency; these fied operational measures that JPL is currently implementing, and will reduce programs are expected to save an additional 6 million kilowatt-hours annually. the Lab’s energy consumption by an additional 300 kilowatts and 2 million an- JPL also uses a cutting-edge demand response program that shifts nearly 1.5 nual kilowatt-hours. megawatts to off-peak; plans are in place to increase shifting to 2.7 megawatts Finally, JPL is currently working through Edison’s Industrial Energy Efficiency next year. Finally, JPL has an education program to spread efficiency informa- Program to identify areas of their process operations that will benefit from en- tion to employees and the public.” ergy efficiency. A detailed study is currently underway on JPL’s air compression Flex Your Power said that cumulatively, award winners over the last two and heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems that will soon generate a years have saved more than $172 million, 1 billion kilowatt hours and reduced reduction of more than 500 kilowatts and 3 million annual kilowatt-hours saved. greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to removing more than 80,000 cars from the road. Besides the awards for overall excellence, the organization also gave Q: During heat spells last year, the Lab took extra efforts to reduce en- honors for energy efficiency, demand response, education and leadership, and ergy consumption by asking employees to conserve. Were those useful innovative products and services. For more information, visit www.fypower.org. exercises? Mark Gutheinz, manager of the Facilities Engineering and Construction Sec- tion (281), along with Matthew Berbee of Section 281’s Engineering and Design A: JPL has been, and is, in a leadership role for what is called demand re- Group, accepted the Flex Your Power award May 5 in San Francisco. Later that sponse. In 2006 JPL participated in Edison’s Demand Bidding program, and has month, the pair attended a luncheon to receive another award from Southern taken a “response through awareness” approach to achieve its load-curtailment California Edison associated with JPL's accomplishments in the Flex Your Power goals. When called on for a power curtailment, a series of all-hands e-mail mes- program. sages are distributed to JPL’s 5,500 staff members, public announcements are 5 Flight Projects Center dedicated niverse U

JPL officials and other dignataries joined forces to dedi- director; Adam Schiff, U.S. House of Representatives, 29th cate the Lab’s new Flight Projects Center on May 7. From District; Mark Harmsen, district director, Office of Represen- left: Eugene Trinh, director, NASA Management Office; tative David Dreier; Thomas Gavin, JPL associate director, Julianne Hines, district director, office of Assemblyman Flight Projects and Mission Success; Howard Kass, NASA Anthony Portantino; William Bogaard, mayor of Pasadena; Facilities and Real Property Division; Richard O’Toole, man- Gust Soteropulos, operations manager, Swinerton Con- ager, JPL Office of Legislative Affairs. The new building will struction; Jean-Lou Chameau, President of Caltech; David accommodate between 500 and 600 people and is expected Spence, Mayor of La Cañada Flintridge; Charles Elachi, JPL to be completed by fall 2008. Dutch Slager / JPL Photolab

energy Continued from page 4 broadcast throughout the event, and call desks are set up to handle feedback. So over the next seven years we have much more to do. As we learn about JPL achieved nearly 1.5 megawatts of electrical curtailment by shifting the facil- further energy reduction methods and determine our course of action, awareness ity to an off-hours, weekend operational heating, ventilation and air conditioning and outreach is a necessary prerequisite for this kind of a reduction, and JPL’s schedule. The computerized energy management system is utilized to unload energy team has taken steps to help this effort. Some of those include demand critical facilities to the fullest extent possible without effecting operations. response posters, an Earth Day presentation, an Energy Awareness Month cam- Also in 2006, JPL participated in Edison’s Technical Audit/Technical Incentive paign with lectures on energy talks, and an Energy Tip of the week on JPL TV. Program to identify even further potential for demand response reductions. The program showed JPL could reduce load by an additional megawatt, bringing the Q. What about the use of solar power or other renewable energy at JPL?

A: We are about to begin construction of a 30-kilowatt on

“Incorporating the latest technologies in lighting, heating, the roof of Building 302 that will be installed in conjunction with a new “cool roof” for the building. A cool roof is one that is specially designed to reflect heat ventilation and air conditioning, as well as windows and instead of absorb it. insulation, JPL will reduce the [Flight Project Center’s] load by Also, we are in the final design phase of a 30- to 50-kilowatt system that will 200 kilowatts and 1 million annual kilowatt-hours.” go on the roof of Building 300. This system is very special because it is a beta test configuration from a company called Energy Innovations that uses prisms to —Mark Gutheinz concentrate the solar energy for better absorption. Also, we are about to start design on a 50- to 100-kilowatt system to be located on the roof of Building 301 that will be installed in the fiscal year 2008 budget cycle. total site contribution to 2.27 megawatts; as a result, JPL has drafted a plan to Finally, in response to a new federal energy law, we will continue to plan and achieve even greater results in the coming years. install additional renewable sources as funds become available. Our goal is to produce 3.5 percent of the Lab’s power consumption from on-site renewable Q: What more does JPL need to do in future years? sources.

A: By executive order, all federal agencies must show a 30 percent reduction in Q: How can JPL employees find out more about the Lab’s energy conserva- energy use by fiscal year 2015. This program began in 2005 and utilizes a 2003 tion efforts? baseline measured in BTUs per square foot. JPL is currently ahead of the curve in reductions, but the requirement will become more difficult year by year. A: Visit our website at http://construction.jpl.nasa.gov. 6 Top performers receive Explorer Bonus Awards

Twenty of JPL’s top performers were formally honored at an Explorer The Bonus Awards ceremony also included recognition for the annual Ed Bonus Award ceremony and dinner in April at Caltech’s Athenaeum. Stone Award for Outstanding Research Publication. Winners are Can- niverse

U JPL’s Bonus Award Program consists of various award levels for individuals and teams. dice Hansen and Rui Yang. The Explorer Bonus Award is designed to honor individuals based on four categories of For more information about the Bonus Awards and the 2007 winners, excellence and is the highest award level in JPL’s program. visit http://eis.jpl.nasa.gov/hr/esr/BONUS. The 2007 Explorer Bonus Award honorees: Strategic Leadership: Ralph Basilio, Eastwood Im, Veronica McGregor, Jeffrey Norris, Back row, from left: Ed Stone, Dan McCleese, Eastwood Im, Ralph Basilio, Ronald Boain, Suzanne Smith, Eric Sunada. Dorice Odell, Rui Yang, Marshall Smart, Ann Mercuri, Eric Sunada, Helen Lee (wife of honor- Scientific and Technical Excellence: Ronald Boain, Theodore Drain, Allan Lee, ee Allan Lee), Gene Tattini. Middle row, from left: Veronica McGregor, John Schofield, William John T. Schofield, Timothy Sink, Marshall Smart, John Trauger. Reinholtz, John Trauger, Suzanne Smith. Front row, from left: Candice Hansen, Lawrence Effective Business Management: Dorice Odell, Irene Schwab. Wade, Jeffrey Norris, Theodore Drain, Irene Schwab. Effective Partnerships & Relationships: Ann Mercuri, William Reinholtz, Lawrence Wade. Dutch Slager / JPL Photolab Image archive honored for environmental contributions

TerraLook, a JPL-developed online cataloging system that maintains and distributes a wide variety of images generated from Earth-orbiting satellites, has been awarded $10,000 for becoming a finalist in the recent St. Andrews Prize for the Environment competition. The St. Andrews Prize is an initiative by the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and international integrated energy company ConocoPhillips that recognizes significant contribu- tions to environmental conservation. TerraLook provides satellite images along with simple tools to view and use them, all at no cost to users. It consists of a website where users can create their own custom collections of images, as well as a toolkit, which is software that allows users to view and do useful tasks with the collection. Many of the TerraLook images were generated by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, whose U.S. science team is based at JPL. Gary Geller, deputy manager of NASA’s Ecological Forecasting Program, conservation liaison for the JPL flight project and the lead for TerraLook, noted that the system was formerly known as the Protected Area Archive, reflecting its origins in conservation. Geller conceptualized TerraLook after talking with park managers in southeast Asia, where he learned they were unable to access the instrument's images because the data format was quite specialized and the tools were very sophisticated and expensive. Today, the U.S Geological Survey’s National Center for Earth Resources Observation Sci- ence operates TerraLook and provides the permanent home for the system, which has a range of users from more than 50 countries in disciplines including sustainable development, education, urban studies and conservation. Geller said the prize money would largely be dedicated to outreach activities for the system. The TerraLook archive compares images such as these two of Emas National Park in For more information on TerraLook, visit http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/terralook.asp. Brazil. The top photo is a 1976 image from the Landsat satellite; bottom photo is the same area imaged by JPL's instrument in 2002. 7

Elachi receives award, elected to board JPL on May 23, was was specifically acknowledged for leading a model News JPL Director Charles Elachi is the recipient of two recent rideshare program, mentoring other companies in the development of honors. their own plans and contributing to a variety of Metro programs. Elachi was selected to receive the 2007 International von Kár- niverse U mán Wings Award given by the Aerospace Historical Society. The Help on spending available Briefs award recognizes him for his “exceptional leadership at JPL, along All employees are responsible for ensuring that their expenditures do with related distinguished technical contribution to our country not result in costs that would be unallowable against the NASA prime and (aerospace) industry.” contract. Cost allowability requirements derive from the prime contract Previous honorees in the 23-year awards program include Lab and federal acquisition regulations. founder Theodore von Kármán, and former JPL directors William Many of the applicable requirements are spelled out in Laboratory Pickering and Ed Stone. The award was presented in a ceremony policies and procedures available through JPL Rules! For guidance on and banquet May 10 at Caltech. this subject, please call Michael Jameson of the Contract Administration In other news, Elachi has been elected by the members of the Office at ext. 4-8390. Jameson is also available to conduct brief training National Academy of Engineering to serve on the academy’s Board sessions for your group on the unallowable costs that are most likely to of Councillors for a three-year term. be encountered.

Optical society honors Bar-Cohen Burn survivors quest underway Yoseph Bar-Cohen, supervisor of the Advanced Technologies The annual Firefighters Quest for Burn Survivors fundraiser is now Group, has been selected as the recipient of the 2007 President’s underway through early June. A caravan of Quest vehicles will conduct a Award by the International Society for Optical Engineering. statewide rally the morning of June 8, visiting participating fire depart- Bar-Cohen, a JPL senior research scientist and a physicist, ments, including JPL. was honored in recognition of his significant contributions to the Last year JPL firefighters raised about $2,400 on T-shirt sales. For organization's interdisciplinary presence in the scientific commu- information on participation, call firefighter Robert Franco at ext. 4-3311 nity as the chair of its Smart Structures Symposium over the past or visit the JPL Fire Department. eight years and, in particular, “for his unique ability to recognize opportunities for stimulating the public interest in science and American heritage celebrated June 14 engineering through his imaginative ideas and events.” JPL’s annual celebration of American heritage is scheduled for Thurs- The President’s Award is given to an individual who has ren- day, June 14, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. in the mall. dered a unique and meritorious service of outstanding benefit to The event, sponsored by the JPL Diversity and Inclusion Oversight Yoseph Bar-Cohen the society. Bar-Cohen will receive the honor in late August at the Committee, will include free sampling of African-American, Armenian, organization’s award banquet in San Diego. Austrian, Chinese, East Indian, Filipino, German, Iranian/Persian, Japa- nese, Korean, Latino, Native American and Thai cuisine. Singers and Readers like Mars orbiter dancers will provide the entertainment, and various groups will give JPL’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was among “America's 100 demonstrations. Best” in a list of innovations, ideas, people and places selected by The celebration is also open to friends and family of JPL employees editors of Reader's Digest. and contractors. For more information or to volunteer, call Katrina Melen- The orbiter “has been taking extraordinary photos,” said the dez at ext. 4-4164. May 2007 issue of the small-size, big-circulation magazine. Summer childcare available Rideshare program, Miranda earn kudos The Child Educational Center is now enrolling children for the summer JPL’s Rideshare Program was presented with a “Diamond months. Full- and part-time schedules are available. Award” in the Corporate category from the Los Angeles County The Child Educational Center is a nationally accredited program that Metropolitan Transportation Authority. features innovative and research-based curriculum, a spacious play yard JPL was recognized for its contribution to reducing vehicle and a 1-to-7 ratio of adults to children. trips, traffic congestion and pollution. Employee Transportation For more information, call ext. 4-3418 or visit http://ceconline.org. Coordinator John Miranda, who accepted the award on behalf of

Six earn JPL Fellow designation

From left: Charles Elachi, Michael Werner, Rob Man- ning, Robert Rasmussen, Mark Adler, Gerard Holz- mann, Dara Sabahi. Dutch Slager / JPL Photolab

Six engineers, scientists and technologists have been selected as JPL Fellows, the advice on strategic technical decisions on missions, systems and projects as well as top rung of the Laboratory’s technical career ladder. future directions in research and technology. Following the solicitation of nominations, Those chosen for 2007 are Mark Adler, Gerard Holzmann, Rob Manning, Robert selections were recommended by a Fellow Promotion Advisory Board, which includes Rasmussen, Dara Sabahi and Michael Werner. the existing JPL Fellows. The designation of Fellow recognizes those who have made extraordinary technical For more information about the new JPL Fellows, please visit http://dailyplanet.jpl. contributions to JPL over an extended period of time. Fellows will be sought out for nasa.gov/onlab/JPL-fellows.php. S D A D E I F I S S A L C T I M B U S D N A D A E R T JPL’ P J AT 8 Pasadena, CA 91109. CA Pasadena, Drive, Grove Oak 4800 Laboratory, Propulsion Jet the of Education and Communications of Office the by published is Universe Universe [email protected] s o http://dailyplanet E N I L N JPL Photo Lab Photo JPL Photography DavidHinkle Production AudreySteffan Design Whalen Mark Editor P

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