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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 Feb. 8, 1990
Frank L. Schutz has been appointed Deputy Assistant
Laboratory Director of JPL's Office of Space Science and
Instruments, succeeding Raymond L. Heacock, who retired
January 31.
The appointment, announced recently by JPL Director
Dr. Lew Allen, is effective immediately.
With 20 years of service at the Laboratory, Schutz
has carried out many key line and management responsibilities
in the research and development of space science instruments.
Most recently, he was manager of JPL's program in Planetary
Astrophysics and Microgravity Instruments.
Prior to that position, Schutz had worked in
various other capacities, such as assistant manager of the
Earth and Space Sciences Division and deputy manager of the
Observational Systems Division.
He has managed a variety of projects, including
the Modular Containerless Processing Facility (MCPF), the
Caltech/MIT Laser Interferometer Gravity Wave Observatory
(LIGO), and the Atmospheric Trace Molecule Spectroscopy
(ATMOS) experiment. He also lectures on management at the
Caltech Industrial Relations Center.
Schutz, 59, was born in Milwaukee, Wis., and
attended the College of San Mateo, Calif. He received
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a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford
University in 1960.
A member of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a resident of La Cañada,
Calif., Schutz is married, with seven children and eight
grandchildren.
Heacock, 62, who has retired after 36½ years of
service at JPL, served in many positions during his tenure,
including spacecraft systems manager from 1970-77 and
project manager from 1979-81 of the Voyager mission, which
culminated in last summer's flyby of Neptune.
In recent years, Heacock had been manager of JPL's
Special Programs Office, overseeing projects such as the Wide
Field/Planetary Camera, designed for NASA's Hubble Space
Telescope, and the Microwave Limb Sounder instrument for the
Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) mission.
He also was manager of the Mariner Mark II
spacecraft series that will be used in future NASA missions
to explore the outer planets of the solar system.
Heacock was a key participant in some of the
earliest JPL projects, such as the Sergeant missile projects
of the mid-1950s. He later participated in the Ranger and
Surveyor missions to the Moon, and Mariner interplanetary
missions to explore Mars, Venus and Mercury.
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Among his awards, Heacock received the James Watt
International Gold Medal Award for the Voyager spacecraft in
1980 and NASA's Distinguished Service Medal in 1981.
Born in Santa Ana, Calif., Heacock attended Santa
Ana College and completed his bachelor's and master's
degrees in electrical engineering in 1952 and 1953,
respectively, from the California Institute of Technology.
Heacock is married, with five children, and resides
in La Crescenta, Calif.
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