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A message from Dawn's Principal Investigator, Chris Russell

"Assembling a team is a difficult job.... You look for people who first of all work well together, but people who are the most talented people in the field. If you go to a lot of scientific meetings, and you interact with people, you talk to people. You talk to people who know people. You finally end up with learning who are the most talented people and they work together. If you go to a school yard and you take a look at the children playing in the school yard, you will find out that there is a certain group that plays together. Those people cooperate together. They have the same intellectual capabilities, and the same interests. It is the same in science as in the school yard. It is; it really is."
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Science Team


Chris Russell, Dawn Prinicipal Investigator, UCLA + Interview	Carol Raymond, Deputy Prinicipal Investigator, JPL + Interview	Fabrizio Capaccioni, Technical Manager, Co-Investigator, INAF	Maria Teresa Capria, Data Archive Manager, Co-Investigator, INAF	Ulrich Christensen, Co-Investigator, MPS	Angioletta Coradini, VIR Team Leader, Co-Investigator, INAF + Receives Award

Maria Cristina De Sanctis, Deputy Leader, Co-Investigator, INAF	Bill Feldman, GRaND Deputy, Co-Investigator, PSI	Ralf Jaumann, Dawn Co-Investigator, DLR	Steve Joy, Manager, Dawn Science Center, UCLA + Interview	H. Uwe Keller, FC Team Leader, Co-Investigator, MPS	Tom McCord, Co-Investigator Bear Fight Research Center, Winthrop WA + WNYC interview

Lucy McFadden, E/PO Director, Co-Investigator, UMD + Read article	Hap McSween, Co-Investigator, UT	Stefano Mottola, Operations & Focal Plane, Co-Investigator, DLR	Gerhard Neukum, Co-Investigator, FU Berlin	Carle Pieters, Co-Investigator, Brown University	Tom Prettyman, GRaND team leader, Co-Investigator, PSI + WNYC interview

Mark Sykes, Data Archiving and Science, Co-Investigator, PSI	Maria Zuber, Topography and Gravity, Co-Investigator, MIT

Project management and mission design & operations team


Robert Mase, Project Manager, JPL + Read more	Mike Sierchio, Deputy Project Manager, JPL	Carol Raymond, Deputy Principal Investigator, JPL + Interview	Marc Rayman, Chief Engineer, JPL + Interview	John Brophy, Ion Propulsion System Manager, JPL + Interview	Mark Brown, Project Systems Engineering Manager, JPL

George Carlisle, Mission Design Manager, JPL	Tim Larson, Safety & Mission Assurance Manager, JPL	Ed Miller, Payload System Manager, JPL + Interview	Ray Morris, Mission Ops. System Manager, JPL	Michael Taylor, Deputy Mission Assurance Manager, JPL	Ken Yamane, Business Manager, JPL

Dipak Achhnani, GDS Integration and Testing, JPL	Christine Alvarado, Configuration Management Engineer, JPL	Eric Archer, Telecom Tech Rep, JPL	Glenn Aveni, Contamination Control Engineer, JPL	Brian Bone, SCT Testbed Engineer, JPL	Nune Boyadjian, Project Resource Administrator, JPL

Larry Bryant, Flight Team Trainer, JPL	Brian Cooke, Project V&V Engineer, JPL	Salvatore DiStefano, SCT Power Engineer, JPL	Lydia Dubon, GDS Engineer, JPL	Chris Farguson, Environmental Requirements Engineer, JPL	Paul Fieseler, SCT Systems Engineer, JPL + Interview

Jim Goddard, MP&S Software CAM, JPL	Robert Gounley, Risk Mgmt, Engineer & PSE Support, JPL	Natalie Guzman, Information Management Engineer, JPL	Dave Hanks, Pointing Tool Development, JPL	Gregory Horvath, Fault Protection Engineer, JPL	Jeannette Illsley, GS V&V Engineer, JPL

Sandy Itatani, Cost Analyst, JPL	Jonathan Kalbfeld, Ground Data System Mission Support Engineer, JPL	Lermont Khachikyan, Flight Software Systems Engineer, JPL	Tom Kohne, Deputy Business Manager, JPL	Jeff Levison, Flight Software Systems Engineer, JPL	Karan L'Heureux Systems Safety Engineer, JPL

Patricia Lock, EEIS Engineer, JPL + Interview	Andrew Makovsky, Telecom System Engineer, JPL	Veloris McKay, Project Secretary, JPL	Ryan Montgomery, Project Schedule Analyst, JPL	George Noutsios, Reliability Engineer, JPL	Kyran Owen-Mankovich, GDS Deployment, JPL

Betina Pavri, Payload Systems Engineer, JPL + Interview	Eve Pereira, DSN Scheduling/ Sequencing, JPL	Carol Polanskey, Science Ops System Engineer, JPL + Interview	James Polk, IPS Integration Support Engineer, JPL	Jennifer Rocca, Launch Phase Lead & PSE Support, JPL + Learn More	Martha Scarbrough, Subcontracts Manager, JPL

Kathryn Schimmels, MOS Engineer, JPL	Eddy Shalom, CDH/ACS Technical Rep, JPL	Joel Signorelli, Mission Scenario Testing, JPL	Ed Swenka , Avionics PEM, JPL	Lisa Tatge, SCT C&DH Engineer, JPL	Eric Tauer, Ground Data System Engineer, JPL

Ben Toyoshima, Mission Control Team, JPL	Shonte Tucker, SCT Thermal Engineer, JPL	Antonio Ulloa-Severino, HVEA Cog E/EPS Tech. Rep., JPL	Anthony Vanelli, ACS Engineer, JPL	Vic Voskanian, Sequence Systems Engineer, JPL	Timothy Weise, MOS Spacecraft Team Chief, JPL

Steve Williams, Trajectory Design Engineer, JPL	Eric Wood, Pointing Tool Adaptation Lead, JPL	Peter Xaypraseuth, Systems Engineer, JPL

Spacecraft design, assembly & launch operations team


Mike Mook, Dawn Project Manager, Orbital + Interview	Flight Assurance Team, Orbital	Mechanical Subsystem - Design & Analysis Team, Orbital	Communication and ACS Subsystems Team, Orbital	Program Management Team, Orbital	Software Engineering Team, Orbital

Propulsion Subsystem Team, Orbital

Gamma-ray Neutron Spectrometer (GRaND) team


Tom Prettyman, GRaND team leader, Co-Investigator, PSI	Bill Feldman, GRaND Deputy, Co-Investigator, PSI	Bruce Barraclough, Instrument Manager, LANL	Sean Apgar, GRaND Technician, LANL	Juan Baldonado GRaND Technician, LANL	John Bernardin, GRaND Project Manager & Environmental Test Engineer, LANL

David Cronk, GRaND Technician, LANL	Bob Dingler, GRaND Lead Software Engineer, LANL	Don Enemark, GRaND Digital Electronics Lead, LANL	Jack Gioia, GRaND Electrical Engineer, LANL	Jason Jaworski, NASA-USRP Student, GRaND/LANL	Doug Patrick, GRaND Principal Engineer, LANL

Marlon Sequeira, NASA-USRP Student, GRaND/LANL	Steve Storms, GRaND Lead Mechanical Engineer, LANL	Martin Sweet, GRaND Electrical Engineer, LANL

Framing Camera (FC) team


H. Uwe Keller, FC Team Leader, Co-Investigator, MPS	Klaus-Michael Aye, UDP Software, Operations, MPS	Jacqueline Bukatz, Dawn FC Project Secretary, MPS	Irene Büttner, EGSE, Operations, MPS	Ulrich Christensen, Chairman Camera Science Team, MPS	Rainer Enge, Power Converter Unit Eng., MPS

Walter Goetz, CCD Performance - System Level, MPS	Pablo Gutierrez-Marques, FC Operations Manager, S/W Lead, MPS	Hermann Hartwig, Instrument Design & Mechanisms, MPS	Wolfgang Kühne, Mechanism Controller Unit, MPS	Andreas Nathues, Science Support & MLI, MPS	Michael Lee Richards, QA, PA Plan, Parts Qual, MPS

Rolf Schäfer, Inter-Experiment Harness, MPS	Holger Sierks, FC Project Manager, MPS	Michael Sperling, Power Converter Unit, MPS	Christoph Stucke, Computer Support, MPS	Istvan Szemerey, PCU-Advisor, Sys.Engineering, MPS

Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (VIR) team


Angioletta Coradini, VIR Team Leader, Co-Investigator, INAF + Receives Award	Fabrizio Capaccioni, Co-Investigator, Technical Manager, INAF	Maria Cristina De Sanctis, Co-Investigator, Deputy Leader, INAF	Eleonora Ammannito, Team member, Calibration and Data Analysis, INAF	Alessandra Barbis, VIR Calibration Engineer, GA	Marco Benetello, VIR SW Engineer, GA

Alessandro Bini, VIR Program Manager, GA	Maria Teresa Capria, Team member, Data Archive Manager, INAF	Francesco Carraro, Team member, Data Archive, INAF	Priscilla Cerroni, Team member, Data Analysis, INAF	Giovanni Cherubini, VIR Mech. System Engineer, GA	Michele Dami, VIR Optical System Engineer, GA

Sergio Fonte, Team member, Operations, INAF	Livia Giacomini, Team member, Public outreach, INAF	Maurizio Giustini, VIR QA Engineer, GA	Amara Graps, Team member, Ground segment, INAF	Gianfranco Magni, Team Member, Observations strategy, INAF	Stefano Nencioni, VIR FPGA Designer, GA

Roberto Orosei, Team member, Ground Segment, INAF	Stefano Pieraccini, VIR Main Electronic Lead, GA	Carlo Pompei, VIR Integration & Env. Test Engineer, GA	Enrico Russo, Program Manager, ASI	Fabio Tarchi, VIR Electrical System Engineer, GA	Iacopo Ficai Veltroni, VIR Instrument System Engineer, GA

Education and Public Outreach team


Lucy McFadden, E/PO Director, Co-Investigator, UMD	Joe Wise, E/PO Manager, New Roads School	John Ristvey, E/PO Lead, McREL	Jacinta Behne, E/PO, McREL	Judy Counley, E/PO, McREL	Deb Aruca, E/PO, McREL

MEMBERS NOT SHOWN:

G. Filacchione	Team member, Calibration, National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF)
A. S. Konopliv	Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
H. Perplies	Engineering, Test Support, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
K. Schneider	Optics & Calibration, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
D. E. Smith	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
B. Williams	Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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