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OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA. TELEPHONE 354-5011
FOR RELEASE THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1969
PASADENA, Calif.--Formation of the Viking Orbiter
Office
at the California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion
Laboratory
was announced today by JPL Director Dr. William H. Pickering.
Henry W. Norris was named Viking Orbiter manager;
Kermit S. Watkins, deputy manager; Allen E. Wolfe, spacecraft
system manager; and Dr. Conway W. Snyder, Viking Orbiter
scientist.
The Viking Project, designed to send two orbiters
with
landing capsules to Mars in 1973, is managed for the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration by the NASA Langley
Research
Center in Hampton, Virginia.
The newly-established office at JPL is responsible
for
the design and development of the orbiting spacecraft portion
of
the Viking system and the conduct of the orbiter phase of the
mission. The Laboratory is responsible also for Viking
tracking
and data acquisition.
Norris was JPL's spacecraft system manager for the
Mariner Mars l969 Project. He was named to the Vikingposition
after the successful launch of Mariner VI last February and
Mariner
VII in March. The two Mariner spacecraft will arrive at Mars
in
July and August, respectively.
Watkins was assistant project manager for the
Surveyor
series of lunar soft-landing spacecraft and general manager
of
project operations for the Laboratory's Office of Flight
Projects.
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Wolfe was spacecraft system manager for the Ranger
series of lunar photo-reconnaissance spacecraft and for the
Mariner
V mission to Venus in 1967. His most recent post was manager
of
JPL's Space Sciences Project section.
Dr. Snyder was project scientist for the Mariner V
Venus mission in 1967. He also was a science investigator
for
solar plasma instruments flown to Venus in 1962 by Mariner II
and to Mars in 1965 by Mariner IV.
The two Viking Orbiter spacecraft will circle Marsin
l973 while the Viking Landers descend to the Martian surface.
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