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Items may vory lr\ appearance from piCtures shown. THE ROCKETEER THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1996 NAVAL AIR WEAPONS STATION, CHINA LAKE Photo by Terry Poscorello, S&TDD KICKING OFF the construction effort forthe new Child Development Center ore {1-r) Deputy Officer in Chorge of Construction Cdr. {Sel.) Charles C. Miller, Public Works Officer Copt. Andrew Ritchie, NAWS Commanding Officer Chuck Stevenson, CDC Monoger Debra Oliver, Trevor /hie ond Mike Smith, of Romtech Buifding Systems, Inc. Local team contributes to Mars exploration By Kathi Ramont S1oH Wn~et S ponsored by the NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), the Mars Pathfinder Program will attempt to land an environmental probe, or small-scale land rover, on the surface of Mars in 1997. Another goal of this program is to demon- strate a low-cost approach for landing payloads on Mars that could be used for future missions. Pathfinder's roots go back to the 1980s, to a time when NASA envisioned huge (about one-ton) rovers being sent to Mars for exploration and sampling. But in 1989 NASA's budget began to shrink, and so too did the size of the rovers. In 1992, JPL demonstrated a " microrover" weighing only 15 pounds, and NASA agreed to fund a Mars project using the JPL product. NASA dubbed the venture Mars Pathfinder and the Micro- Februa!Yis Black H1story Month Shaping Your Future rover Flight Experiment (MFEX). In 1994, JPL tasked a NAWCWPNS team to per- form proof-of-concept testing of the retro-rocket system. Most items were to be supplied by JPL as contractor furnished equipment, while the Weapons Division was to provide the test facilities. The JPL program manager, however, soon became impressed with the professionalism and can-do attitude of the team, and eventually the program has expanded to include technical assistance and testing of four other subsystems. If all goes as planned, a Delta rocket will lift off for Mars in December 1996 carrying the Pathfinder spacecraft and the MFEX. Seven months later the spacecraft will arrive at Mars. It will go directly from Earth and land at a prese- lected site on Mars without first orbiting the planet. Upon entering the Martian atmosphere, the heat Please see PATHFINDER, Page 18 Occupational SafetY and Health Inspection Month is filled with observance events, and training is available Supervisory Network ra_p sessions scheduled; SF-171 video available Inspector will meet privately with individuals to hear complaints 9 10 I 15 Voc 52, No. 2 27,000-sq. ft. complex China Lake breaks ground on new Child Development Center By Barry McDonald Ed•IO< J oining the brass for a groundbreak.ing ceremony last week was 5-year-old Trevor lhle. Standing shoulder-to-knee with Child Development Center Manager Debra Oliver, Trevor with his own hard hat and shovel helped Oliver, NAWS Commanding Officer Chuck Stevenson, Deputy Ofticer in Charge of Construction Cdr. (Set.) Charles C. Miller, Public Works Officer Capt. Andrew Ritchie and Mike Smith, of Ramtech Building Systems, Inc., in turning the first dirt on the project that will sec the construction of a new single-site Child Development Center (CDC). The ceremony was held on the north side of Nimitz Avenue between Mitscher and Dibb, in the area where some 60 old duplex housing units were demolished last year. Prior to the ceremony Stevenson welcomed 140 children, their care providers from the CDC and other distinguished guests. He reviewed the history and praised the success of the child care pro- gram at China Lake, pointing out that it was the first in DoD to receive accreditation and that in subsequent inspection<: the Ci.ma Lake CDC has received no less than an "Outstanding" grade. The CO also reviewed the history of the Station's efforts to build new child care facilities. There has been an approved Mili- tary Construction (MILCON) Project on the shelf for many years, he said, and with MILCON money now going to complete base closures stemming from the Base Realignment and Closure Please see CDC, Page 19 Station is NAVAIR nominee for Installation of Excellence By J ill Guinn S&TDD 0 n January 20, China Lake won the NAYAIR por- tion of the Commander-In-Chief's Installation of Excellence Award. Or, as XO Cdr. Gregg Howard's excited QuickMail message stated, "We won! We were selected as the NAVAIR winner for the Installa- tion Excellence Award. We will go on to the CNO level!'' W1nning the NAVAIR portion is no small feat. The sclcct1on cnteria are very specific: total quality leadership, awards, Occupational Safety and Health Programs, Equal Employment Opportunities, community relations and par- ticipatiOn, and quality of life initiatives. The reason for applying for the NAYAIR nomination was enthus1ast1cally explained during preparation by CO Capt. Chuck Stevenson, "China Lake is such a great place that we JUSt have to go for it." Go for 11 we d1d and successfully. From this first-round vtctory Chma Lake goes on to compete with facilities Navy-wide through the Office ofthe Chief of Naval Oper- ations. If the Station wins round two, it's on to the com- mander-in-chief competition. , OCR Text: 24 THE ROCKETEER January 25, 1996 - . 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Items may vory lr\ appearance from piCtures shown. THE ROCKETEER THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1996 NAVAL AIR WEAPONS STATION, CHINA LAKE Photo by Terry Poscorello, S&TDD KICKING OFF the construction effort forthe new Child Development Center ore {1-r) Deputy Officer in Chorge of Construction Cdr. {Sel.) Charles C. Miller, Public Works Officer Copt. Andrew Ritchie, NAWS Commanding Officer Chuck Stevenson, CDC Monoger Debra Oliver, Trevor /hie ond Mike Smith, of Romtech Buifding Systems, Inc. Local team contributes to Mars exploration By Kathi Ramont S1oH Wn~et S ponsored by the NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), the Mars Pathfinder Program will attempt to land an environmental probe, or small-scale land rover, on the surface of Mars in 1997. Another goal of this program is to demon- strate a low-cost approach for landing payloads on Mars that could be used for future missions. Pathfinder's roots go back to the 1980s, to a time when NASA envisioned huge (about one-ton) rovers being sent to Mars for exploration and sampling. But in 1989 NASA's budget began to shrink, and so too did the size of the rovers. In 1992, JPL demonstrated a " microrover" weighing only 15 pounds, and NASA agreed to fund a Mars project using the JPL product. NASA dubbed the venture Mars Pathfinder and the Micro- Februa!Yis Black H1story Month Shaping Your Future rover Flight Experiment (MFEX). In 1994, JPL tasked a NAWCWPNS team to per- form proof-of-concept testing of the retro-rocket system. Most items were to be supplied by JPL as contractor furnished equipment, while the Weapons Division was to provide the test facilities. The JPL program manager, however, soon became impressed with the professionalism and can-do attitude of the team, and eventually the program has expanded to include technical assistance and testing of four other subsystems. If all goes as planned, a Delta rocket will lift off for Mars in December 1996 carrying the Pathfinder spacecraft and the MFEX. Seven months later the spacecraft will arrive at Mars. It will go directly from Earth and land at a prese- lected site on Mars without first orbiting the planet. Upon entering the Martian atmosphere, the heat Please see PATHFINDER, Page 18 Occupational SafetY and Health Inspection Month is filled with observance events, and training is available Supervisory Network ra_p sessions scheduled; SF-171 video available Inspector will meet privately with individuals to hear complaints 9 10 I 15 Voc 52, No. 2 27,000-sq. ft. complex China Lake breaks ground on new Child Development Center By Barry McDonald Ed•IO< J oining the brass for a groundbreak.ing ceremony last week was 5-year-old Trevor lhle. Standing shoulder-to-knee with Child Development Center Manager Debra Oliver, Trevor with his own hard hat and shovel helped Oliver, NAWS Commanding Officer Chuck Stevenson, Deputy Ofticer in Charge of Construction Cdr. (Set.) Charles C. Miller, Public Works Officer Capt. Andrew Ritchie and Mike Smith, of Ramtech Building Systems, Inc., in turning the first dirt on the project that will sec the construction of a new single-site Child Development Center (CDC). The ceremony was held on the north side of Nimitz Avenue between Mitscher and Dibb, in the area where some 60 old duplex housing units were demolished last year. Prior to the ceremony Stevenson welcomed 140 children, their care providers from the CDC and other distinguished guests. He reviewed the history and praised the success of the child care pro- gram at China Lake, pointing out that it was the first in DoD to receive accreditation and that in subsequent inspection<: the Ci.ma Lake CDC has received no less than an "Outstanding" grade. The CO also reviewed the history of the Station's efforts to build new child care facilities. There has been an approved Mili- tary Construction (MILCON) Project on the shelf for many years, he said, and with MILCON money now going to complete base closures stemming from the Base Realignment and Closure Please see CDC, Page 19 Station is NAVAIR nominee for Installation of Excellence By J ill Guinn S&TDD 0 n January 20, China Lake won the NAYAIR por- tion of the Commander-In-Chief's Installation of Excellence Award. Or, as XO Cdr. Gregg Howard's excited QuickMail message stated, "We won! We were selected as the NAVAIR winner for the Installa- tion Excellence Award. We will go on to the CNO level!'' W1nning the NAVAIR portion is no small feat. The sclcct1on cnteria are very specific: total quality leadership, awards, Occupational Safety and Health Programs, Equal Employment Opportunities, community relations and par- ticipatiOn, and quality of life initiatives. The reason for applying for the NAYAIR nomination was enthus1ast1cally explained during preparation by CO Capt. Chuck Stevenson, "China Lake is such a great place that we JUSt have to go for it." Go for 11 we d1d and successfully. From this first-round vtctory Chma Lake goes on to compete with facilities Navy-wide through the Office ofthe Chief of Naval Oper- ations. If the Station wins round two, it's on to the com- mander-in-chief competition. , China Lake Museum,Rocketeer Newspaper,Rocketeer 1990s,Rocketeer 1996,Rktr1.25.1996.pdf,Rktr1.25.1996.pdf Page 1, Rktr1.25.1996.pdf Page 1