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From: starrfie@hydro.la.asu.edu (Sumner Starrfield)
Subject: NASA Names Team to Study Return Trip to Mars
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 93 20:13:04 MST
RELEASE: 93-157
NASA NAMES TEAM TO STUDY RETURN TRIP TO MARS
NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin today announced the
establishment of a study team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL), Pasadena, Calif., to explore possibilities for a return
mission to Mars to recover some of the scientific objectives of
the Mars Observer mission, if communications with that spacecraft
cannot be reestablished.
The study team, led by Dr. Charles Elachi, Assistant
Laboratory Director at JPL, will look at a variety of low-cost
spacecraft, instrument and launch options, with the objective of
returning to Mars in 1994 or 1996.
The team will review available spacecraft and instrument
options from industry and government, including Mars Observer
spares and possible international contributions. The team is
expected to present potential mission options to NASA within the
next 2 months.
Members of the study team currently include:
Arden Albee California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Carl Sagan Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
Bruce Murray California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
John Casani JPL
Tom Coughlin Applied Physics Laboratory, Baltimore
Steve Paddock Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
Eugene Giberson JPL (retired)
Ray Heacock JPL (retired)
Jonathan Lunine University of Arizona, Tucson
Rich Matlock Ballistic Missile Defense Office, Washington, D.C.
Donna Pivirotto JPL
Rob Staehle JPL
John Beckman JPL
Larry Soderblom U.S. Geologic Survey, Flagstaff, Ariz.
Carolyn Porco University of Arizona, Tucson
Bud Wheelon Hughes Aircraft Co. (retired), Los Angeles
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