The next JPL Story is scheduled for Tuesday, October 20, 2009 from 4:30-5:30 p.m., with John Casani, longtime JPLer and Galileo Project Manager, presenting, "Getting Galileo to the Launch Pad."
Come hear about the history of the evolution of the project and the numerous hurdles in the form of reprogramming that plagued us during development.
The JPL Library, Archives, and Records Section sponsors the
monthly series "JPL Stories" - the concept is to provide an
informal and experiential environment for both the storyteller
and the story listeners. The stories take place in the main
customer service area of the Library, which is the ideal location
for the warm and friendly atmosphere it offers. The plan is
to keep the program as flexible as possible and include a
cross section of storytellers from the JPL community. Stories
can take place in the past, present or future; they can be
historical or make believe; and they can be light-hearted
or serious. They're an effective way to communicate and understand
an organization's culture and can help employees develop a
sense of organizational identity. Stories offer an approach
different from the more formal lectures, seminars and town
halls we have at JPL - they offer another way to be a part
of the discussion. Several stories are in the planning stage
- watch for "JPL Stories" flyers, posters and announcements.
If you have questions or suggestions about the JPL Story series
or if you wish to participate, please contact Teresa Bailey at ext. 4-9233
or teresa.r.bailey@jpl.nasa.gov.
| Story Title, Storyteller and Story Date | Flyer (PDF) |
Story on the Story |
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| John Casani / “Getting Galileo to the Launch Pad” / October 20, 2009“
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| Tony Spear / “My View of JPL in the Early Years-- When Deep Space Exploration Began" / September 23, 2009 |
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| Dr. James Fanson / “Rescuing Hubble.” / July 22, 2009
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| Julie Webster / “May 4, 1989 - Magellan 20 Year Launch Anniversary; Back into Orbit for the Shuttle, Back to the Planets for JPL”/ May 20, 2009” |
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| Dr. Donald Yeomans / “Chicken Little was right! The Sky is Falling.” / January 21, 2009
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| Scott Maxwell / “MER: The First Five Years”
/ November 5, 2008 |
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| Rosaly Lopes / “Galileo's Odyssey - The Worlds of Jupiter”
/ September 24, 2008
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| Todd J. Barber / “We're Not in Kansas Anymore: Tall Tales from Years of JPL Outreach” / June 4, 2008
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| Douglas J. Mudgway/ “William H. Pickering: Deep Space Pioneer -- An Anecdotal Tale of Biographical Discourse”/ April 23, 2008
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| Henry Richter /"Explorer I really 80 days???" / January 30, 2008
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| Tom Duxbury/ 40+ Years of "working for the man"/ September 26, 2007
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| Lonne Lane / POSTPONED |
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| Michael Hecht / "Getting by with a Little Help from Our Friends" / April 26, 2007
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| Andy Mishkin/ "A Long Road to Mars" / February 8, 2007 |
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| Cassini Virtual Singers / "The History of Cassini-Huygens in Song and Verse" / October 25, 2006
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| Pete Theisinger / “MER: A Retrospective from the Top” / January 26, 2006 |
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| Terry Martin/ "Viking - a really BIG Mars mission" / July 13, 2006
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Steve Collins / "Deep Impact, the ACME Comet Collide-O-Tron" / November 17, 2005 |
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Don Sweetnam / "Genesis - What really happened at UTTR?" / October 27, 2005 |
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| Pete Theisinger / “MER: A Retrospective from the Top” / RESCHEDULED 1/26/2002 |
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| Albert Haldemann /"Mars, One Rock at a Time."/ July 21, 2005
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Rosaly Lopes / "Volcano Adventures on the Earth and Planets" / June 16, 2005 |
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Shaun Standley / "Hitchhike to Titan: Huygens' Journey to the Shrouded Moon" / May 19, 2005 |
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| Linda Spilker / "Waves, Wakes and Kinks: Exploring Saturn's Magnificent Rings" / March 31, 2005 |
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| Ellis Miner / "A JPL Scientist's Forays into the Strange World of Public Communications." /
February 24, 2005 |
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| Yoseph Bar-Cohen/ "Biomimetics - Technologies That Mimic Nature."/ January 27, 2005 |
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| Johnny Kwok / "The Revolution and Evolution of the Spitzer Space Telescope Mission and Systems Architecture." /December 9, 2004 |
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| Rob Manning / "MER:Disaster Averted" / November 16, 2004 |
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| Julie Webster /
"The Perils and Pleasures of Cassini's Seven Year Cruise" / October 21, 2004 |
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| Matt Wallace/”Double, Double Toil and
Trouble - Getting Spirit and Opportunity to the Pad/ September 23, 2004
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| Mike Sander/“Mariner Mars '64- First Spacecraft Images
from another Planet - The Adventure Begins.”/July 29, 2004 |
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| Matt Golombek/ “Landing (and Roving) on the Red Planet.” /June 24, 2004 |
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| Andrea Donnellan/“The 1994 Northridge Earthquake and the 10 Years Since.”/May 20, 2004 |
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| Tom Farr/” Feet on the Ground, Eyes in the Sky: A Field Geologist's Adventures in Remote Sensing”/April 29, 2004
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| Claudia Alexander/"Grace Under Fire:
Working international cooperation with the European Space Agency on the U.S. Rosetta Project"/April 1, 2004 |
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| Tom Rivellini/" Airbags, they're not just for cars
anymore"/February 26, 2004 |
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| Paul Weissman/" All Good
Spacecraft Don't Go to Heaven"/ January 29, 2004 |
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| Jack Dawson/"Two
Spectacular Examples of High-Speed and Time Lapse Photography
from JPL"/December 4, 2003 |
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| Peter Poon/ Close encounters
with renowned scientists including Dr. Richard Feynman
and Dr. Stephen Hawking, and a panoramic view of JPL projects
/November 13, 2003 |
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| Richard Shope/"From
Outreach to Up-reach: My Space Science Adventures at JPL
and NASA"/October 30, 2003 |
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| Charles Elachi/
"From a Part-Time Academic to the Director's Office"/September
18, 2003 |
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| Jack Dawson/"Two Spectacular
Examples of High-Speed and Time Lapse Photography from
JPL"/August 28, 2003 |
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| Dave Johnson/"Survivor,
the Amazon Adventure: Bikini Models, Gym Teachers, and
"Rocket Scientists." Oh, My!"/July 31,2003 |
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| "Discovery of Sulfur Dioxide on Jupiter's
Satellite Io, A Personal Perspective of Two Scientists"/Robert
M. Nelson and William D. Smythe/ June 26, 2003 |
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| "Could I Have Been This
Lucky?"/ Jurrie van der Woude/ May 29, 2003 |
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| "Playing the greatest
video game in the Solar system: Stories from a Mars Pathfinder
Rover Driver"/ Brian Cooper/ Thursday, April 24, 2003 |
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| "About IRAS
(Infrared Astronomy Satellite) - cryogenic challenges
and testing of the IR focal plane"/ Dusan Petrac/ Thursday,
February 27, 2003 |
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| "55 Years at JPL (Cheers
and Tears)"/Herman Bank/ Thursday, January 30, 2003 |
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| "The Political, Astrodynamic,
and Sailing Pursuit of Halley's Comet"/Louis Friedman/
Thursday, December 5, 2002 |
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| "Bits of This and That"/Charley
Kohlhase/ Thursday, November 14, 2002 |
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| "Ghostly Signals From Space: Stories From the SETI Days at JPL"/Mike
Klein / Thursday, October 31, 2002 |
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| "The True Story Behind the Mars Pathfinder Success"/Presented by Rob Manning, Brian Muirhead,
and Richard Cook/ Thursday, September 26, 2002 |
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| "Careering through
JPL"/ Alice M. Fairhurst/ Thursday, September 19, 2002
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| "Voyager -- the Journey
of a Lifetime"/Presented by Dr. Ed Stone / Thursday, July
18, 2002 |
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| No Story Scheduled for
June 2002 |
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| "Automated Business Systems:
The Myth, Mystery and Magic/ Presented by Marc Montgomery
/ Thursday, May 23, 2002 |
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| "Floating With Venus"/Fred
Felberg, Associate Director Retiree/Thursday, April 18,
2002 |
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| "The Way the EC Thinks"/Presented
by Mous Chahine/Thursday, March 21, 2002 |
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| "We Few, We Happy Few"/
Presented by Steve Collins, DS1 Attitude Control Lead/Thursday,
February 28, 2002 |
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| "JPL and the Exploration
of Mars "/ Presented by Dr. Bruce Murray/ Thursday, January
31, 2002 |
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