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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 March 1, 1990
William J. O'Neil has been named Galileo Project
Manager by JPL Director Dr. Lew Allen. O'Neil succeeds
Richard J. Spehalski, who will manage the development of
NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility.
Galileo is an unmanned spacecraft mission to
explore the planet Jupiter, its satellites and its
magnetosphere; it was launched October 18, 1989, aboard Space
Shuttle Atlantis. The project is managed for NASA by the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory.
O'Neil has been Galileo's Science and Mission
Design Manager since May 1980; in 1989 he also served as
resident Project Office Representative at Cape Canaveral
while the spacecraft was preparing for launch.
Previously he managed JPL's Mission Design Section
and led the navigation teams on the Mariner 9 and Viking
Projects. He joined JPL in 1963 and worked on the Surveyor
lunar lander in the 1960's.
William O'Neil is an aeronautical engineering
graduate of Purdue University and earned a Master's Degree in
aerospace engineering at the University of Southern
California. He is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Married
and with three adult children, he lives in Sierra Madre,
California.
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