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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) in La Cañada Flintridge, California, Crescenta Valley, United States. [1] Founded in 1936 by California Institute of Technology (Caltech) researchers, the laboratory is now owned and sponsored by NASA and administered and managed by Caltech. [2] [3]
John Whiteside Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons; [nb 1] October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952) was an American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemite occultist.Parsons was one of the principal founders of both the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Aerojet Engineering Corporation.
Michael M. Watkins is an American engineer, scientist, and a Professor of Aerospace and Geophysics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He previously served as the 9th director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and as a vice president of Caltech, which staffs and manages JPL for NASA.
Table Mountain Observatory (TMO) is an astronomical observation facility operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California Institute of Technology). It is located in Big Pines, California, in the Angeles National Forest near Wrightwood, north-northeast of Los Angeles, California. [1] [2] TMO is part of JPL's Table Mountain Facility (TMF).
In 2003, Oh moved to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In JPL's Deep Space Mission Architectures Group he was the lead systems engineer for the GRAIL step 1 Discovery proposal and the ST9 Aerocapture [9] Phase A study for the New Millennium Program. GRAIL went on to become a flight project in NASA's Discovery Program.
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She joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1977, initially working on the Voyager missions that were launched the same year. [9] She became a Cassini mission scientist in 1990. [ 2 ] In 1997, she was the editor of a NASA publication that summarizes the mission's legacy. [ 10 ]
Adam Diedrich Steltzner (born 1963) [3] is an American NASA engineer who works for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He worked on several flight projects including Galileo , Cassini , Mars Pathfinder , Mars Exploration Rovers (MER).