Kuiper Staff and Mission Operations
Mission Directors: Wendy Whiting, Steve Patterson, Carl Gillespie, Jim McClenahan, Tom Kalaskey
Engineers: Paul
Keas, Walter Miller, Mark
Elston, Kaiser Adeni, Tom Conners,
Paul DeLeon
Telescope Operators: Juan Rivera, Rick Doll, Terry Richardson
Tracker Operators: Ben Burress, Allan Meyer
Computer Operators: Jim Cockrell, Dennis Kelley, Terry Duncan, Jeff King
Technician: Alan Dunn
Flight Operations
Pilot: Terry Rager, Geary Tiffany, Allan McCrary
Navigator: Gene Moniz
Flight Engineer: Bill Hoss
Ground Crew: Louie Russo, Chico Rijfkogel, Monte Hodges, Jim Mills,
Mario Garcia, Randy Hobbs,
Lee Mountz
Principal Investigators, Scientists, Astronomers
Al Harper, Bob Loewenstein, Ed Erickson, Ann Sprague,
Ted Dunham,
Mike Haas,
Scott Sandford,
Jesse Bregman,
Tom Roellig,
Sean Colgan, Jim Sweitzer, Paul Harvey, George Gull, David Hollenbach, Dan Lester, Dave Cole
Support team for Scientists
Hardware instrumentation engineer: Tom McMahon
SOFIA Project Development
Project Manager: Chris Wiltsee
Operations Manager: Robert Yee
Engineers: Nans Kunz, Dan Machak
Astronomy Educators
April Whitt,
Robin McGlohn,
Bob Coutts,
Kurt Richter, Edna DeVore, Garth Hull, Randy Lau
Team Members' Journals
Team Members' Junior Journals (5th/6th grade reading level)
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