HUT Scientific and Technical Personnel for Astro-2

More than 100 scientists, engineers, programmers, technicians, and students at the Johns Hopkins University and the university's Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, MD, have worked on HUT since the project was first conceived in 1978 by principal investigator Arthur F. Davidsen. Dr. Davidsen is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and will again lead the HUT ground-support team for Astro-2 from the Payload Operations Control Center at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. Hopkins astrophysicist Samuel T. Durrance, who flew aboard Columbia as a payload specialist on Astro-1 and became the university's first astronaut, will return to space for Astro-2, operating both HUT and the other telescopes. Project Scientist Gerard A. Kriss and Deputy Project Scientists William P. Blair and Jeffrey W. Kruk all bring a wealth of Astro-1 experience to their Astro-2 duties. Additional project co-investigators include Hopkins professors Paul D. Feldman, Richard C. Henry, and H. Warren Moos, and adjunct research professor Knox S. Long, who was HUT Project Scientist for Astro-1.

The current HUT team is made up of nearly 30 Johns Hopkins and APL scientists and staff. Most of these people will be at Marshall Space Flight Center working in shifts around the clock to support the Astro-2 mission. In addition, seven teams of scientists from five institutions around the country were selected by NASA in 1993 to participate with the HUT team in the Astro-2 mission. A number of these "guest investigators" will also be participating in mission operations in Huntsville.

Scientific Personnel for Astro-2

Principal Investigator   Arthur F. Davidsen

Co-Investigators         Samuel T. Durrance
                         Paul D. Feldman
                         Gerard A. Kriss
                         Knox S. Long
                         William P. Blair
                         William G. Fastie
                         Richard C. Henry
                         Jeffrey W. Kruk
                         H. Warren Moos

Project Scientist        Gerard A. Kriss

Deputy Project Scientist for Mission Planning & Operations

                         William P. Blair

Deputy Project Scientist for Instrumentation

                         Jeffrey W. Kruk

Payload Specialist       Samuel T. Durrance

Assistant Project Scientists

                         Richard H. Buss
                         Brian Espey
                         Wei Zheng

Adjunct Scientists       Henry C. Ferguson (STScI)
                         Knox S. Long (STScI)

Guest Investigator Program Coordinator

                         Brian Espey    

Guest Investigators      Brian Espey(JHU)
                         Claus Leitherer (STScI)
                         Regina Schulte-Ladbeck (U. Pitt.)
                         Geoffrey Clayton (U. Colorado)
                         David Finley (Eureka Sci.)
                         John Raymond (SAO)
                         Nolan Walborn (STScI)


Technical and Administrative Personnel for Astro-2


Systems Engineer         Benjamin Ballard (APL)

Mechanical Engineer      Charles Owen (APL)

R&QA Engineer            Alvin Bates (APL)

Engineers                Robert H. Barkhouser
                         Steven J. Conard
                         Robert Kean
                         Eugene Liverette (APL)
                         Scott Shelton (APL)

Scientific Programmers   Mary L. Romelfanger
                         Michael Swam

Graduate Students        Tom Brown
                         W. Van Dyke Dixon
                         Brad Greeley
                         Geunho Lee
                         Ji-Cheng Liu
       
APL Program Manager      Tom Zaremba (APL)

JHU Program Manager      Harold W. Screen

Administrative Assistant Barbara Dreyfus
         
Secretary                Sharon K. Busching

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