Claudia Alexander
Claudia Alexander
Claudia Joan Alexanderwas an American research scientist specializing in geophysics and planetary science. She worked for the United States Geological Survey and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She was the last project manager of NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter and until the time of her death had served as project manager and scientist of NASA's role in the European-led Rosetta mission to study Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko...
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The engineers had to redesign the software, reprogram the tape recorder and had to get Galileo to do data compression,
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It's been a fabulous mission for planetary science, and it is hard to see it come to an end.
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I will be crying because I'm sentimental. But don't tell anyone I said that!
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It was a complete stretch to get it to do that, which saved the mission.
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We're still collecting scientific data. I'm really surprised we haven't gone into emergency mode. This time last November, we were passing through this same zone, and we got clobbered.