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PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109 TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Albert G. Brejcha and Thomas R. Gavin have been
appointed to key posts in reliability and quality assurance
at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory by William S. Shipley,
assistant laboratory director for engineering and review.
Gavin, a Pennsylvanian with a degree in chemistry
from Villanova University, is the new manager of the Quality
Assurance and Electronic Parts Division. Most recently he
served as reliability and quality assurance manager for
Project Galileo, due for launch later this year for an
extended examination of the planet Jupiter. Gavin previously
held a similar post with the Voyager project, which has been
exploring the outer planets for ten years. He will continue
to support Galileo as an additional responsibility.
Brejcha, a native of Chicago with degrees from the
University of Illinois in electrical engineering and from
California State Polytechnic University at Pomona in
management, will manage the Reliability and Safety Division.
He developed and designed spacecraft communications hardware
and was responsible for spacecraft antenna systems for
various Mariner projects and for Viking, Seasat, Voyager, and
Galileo, and managed product assurance and program
engineering staffs.
Shipley, himself a spacecraft project veteran,stressed the importance of experience in space projects and
working with industrial contractors in the newly appointed
reliability and quality assurance managers. "They understand
the issues involved in making our hardware work," he says.
Brejcha lives in Glendora, California with his wife
and two daughters; Gavin resides in Canyon Country with his
wife and four children.
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