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Thomas R. Gavin
Assoc. Dir. Flight Projects and Mission Success
Thomas R. Gavin was appointed JPL's associate director for flight projects and mission success in May 2001. This was a new position created to provide the JPL Director's Office with oversight of flight projects and the mission success organization.
Before that appointment he was director of JPL's Space Science Flight Projects Directorate, which oversaw the Genesis, Mars 2001 Odyssey, Mars Exploration Rover, Spitzer Space Telescope and Galaxy Evolution Explorer projects. He also served as deputy director of JPL's Space and Earth Science Programs Directorate beginning in December 1997. In June 1990 he was appointed spacecraft system manager for the Cassini mission, and remained in that position until the project's successful launch in 1997. From 1968 to 1990 he was a member of the Galileo and Voyager project offices responsible for mission assurance.
Gavin received NASA's Exceptional Service Medal in 1981 for his work on Voyager, NASA's Medal for Outstanding Leadership in 1991 for Galileo, and NASA's Outstanding Leadership Medal in 1999 for Cassini. In 1997, he received Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine's Laurels Award for outstanding achievement in the field of space. He received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Villanova University in Pennsylvania in 1961.
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