Credits and Acknowledgments

We would like to give credit to the following for material that is on our site:

Steven Gribben created all the animations. Those seen here as well as additional animation can be found in the video, NEAR: A Journey to Orbit an Asteroid Has Begun.

Basics of Space Flight by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, especially Chapter 12. Typical Science Instruments.

HTML Goodies by Joe Burns, for some of the icons.

Thanks to the following for helping us out!

Connie Finney from the Office of Public Affairs served as our contact person at JHUAPL.

Robert Gold, NEAR Payload Manager, gave us the instrument cost, weight, and power information for the "Design A Discovery Mission" activity.

Jon Handiboe and Steve Burke for their computer support.

Kenneth Heeres from the NEAR team served as our mentor at the JHUAPL.

Lee Hobson and John O'Brien converted clips and stills of the video NEAR: A Journey Begins into QuickTime videos and image files.

Barry Mauk explained the plasma instruments to us for the "Design a Discovery Mission" activity.

Scott Murchie, NEAR MSI Instrument Scientist, explained all the other instruments to us for the "Design a Discovery Mission" activity.

The Bare Bones Guide to HTML by Kevin Werbach

JavaScript Authoring Guide from Netscape

Table of Contents for no frames/no JAVA browsing.

[LMGFP Home Page] Contact Steve Bowser (slbowser@umd5.umd.edu) or
Joy Maloney (jmaloney@umd5.umd.edu) for further information.