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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 Nov. 16, 1989
Voyager Project Manager Norman R. Haynes has been
appointed Deputy Assistant Laboratory Director of JPL's
Office of Flight Projects, and Haynes' deputy, George P.
Textor, has been named Voyager Project Manager.
The appointments were announced by JPL Director Dr.
Lew Allen and are effective immediately.
Haynes, who managed the Voyager mission during last
summer's flyby of Neptune, has been with JPL since 1959. He
has held key spacecraft project positions, including science
and mission design manager for the Galileo project. He
served as manager of JPL's mission design section, managed
the office of space program development, and headed the
Laboratory's systems division before being appointed manager
of the Voyager Project in 1986.
Haynes, 53, was born in Kalamazoo, Mich. He
received a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from
Purdue University in 1959, and a master's degree in
aeronautical engineering in 1961. He has received NASA's
Exceptional Service and Outstanding Leadership
Medals. Haynes is married, has four children, and resides in
Pasadena, Calif.
George P. Textor has been with JPL since 1967 and
has served in a variety of engineering and managerial
positions on flight projects including the Mariner and Viking
missions to Mars. In 1977, Textor joined the Voyager Project
as encounter preparations manager, and has remained with the
project since, serving as deputy mission director, mission
director and deputy project manager. He is the recipient of
NASA's Exceptional Service Medal for his work on the Viking
Project, and twice has been awarded NASA's Outstanding
Leadership Medal for his role in conducting the Voyager
mission.
Textor, 56, was born in Wilkinsburg, Penn. He
received a bachelor's degree from the U.S. Naval Academy in
1956, and served as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force from
1956-67. Married and the father of four children, Textor
resides in Pasadena, Calif.
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