Bruce Steakley is a retired Technical Fellow from Lockheed Martin and past Chief Systems Engineer and Program Manager of NIRCam. Bruce now grows grapes and makes wine in the Santa Cruz mountains with his wife, Joyce, and they have co-authored the Springer Nature book entitled, "A Quest for Quality Wine, Every Time. A Guide for Root Cause Analysis." Dr. Richard Vassar is retired from the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, was a Principal Research Scientist, Gravity Probe-B program manager, and NIRCam program manager. Richard received his PH.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University. Larry Burriesci is retired Lockheed Martin and was the NIRCam Product Team Lead. Larry was the LM Infrared Test Facility lead and was the Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer Chief Systems Engineer for the NASA Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite. Dr. Marcia J. Rieke is a Regents Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona, Steward Observatory Astronomer, Principal Investigator of NIRCam for the James Webb Space Telescope, 2024 recipient of the Gruber Foundation Cosmology Award, and the outreach coordinator for the Spitzer Space Telescope. Dr. Alison Nordt is Director of Space Science & Instrumentation at the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, member of the National Academy of Engineering, the International Academy of Astronautics and is an AIAA Fellow. She was AIAA's Engineer of the Year in 2023. Alison held several roles on the NIRCam program including Program Manager, Integrated Product Team Lead, and Certified Principal Engineer. Julie Van Campen is the current Webb Telescope Mission Systems Engineer. Former roles on the project included NASA Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) Systems Engineer and the Deputy Commissioning Manager for the James Webb Space Telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. Joyce Steakley is a retired Specialty Engineering Director from Lockheed Martin with over 30 years of experience in materials and processes, contamination control, operations, and engineering. She was a contamination control lead on the Hubble Space Telescope. She has published papers in the field of spacecraft contamination control, grows grapes and makes wine with Bruce, and is an active adult Girl Scout. |