Talk:Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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[edit] Stone as director
I am awful sorry, but to the best of my knowledge Stone was director until 30 April 2001 and Elachi from 1 May 2001 onwards : see [[1]] On [[2]] it says "In January 2001, Dr. Elachi was ***appointed*** as the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Vice President of Caltech.
Don't call something vandalism lightly.
- Well we do get a lot of anonymous-IP vandals, and some of them specialize in arbitrarily altering data, including numbers and dates. It would have been helpful to have included that URL as part of your original edit summary instead of just a blank edit summary. If you were a signed-in user, I would have been more careful about calling it vandalism, but since there is no person's reputation associated with a random IP address, it is helpful to flag a suspicious edit as vandalism in the edit summary in case others see it later and wish to investigate other contributions by the same IP. I did indeed investigate and find an apparently supporting URL before reverting, so I didn't do it lightly, but your clarification explains it. -- Curps 00:02, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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- Allright Curps. You sure did not do it lightly and it could have been vandalism. I am not registered on the English Wikipedia because I do not work on it very often. Long live Wikipedia.
[edit] Tsien Hsue-shen as director
Was Tsien Hsue-shen really director from 1949–1955? That would overlap the claimed dates for Frank Malina and Louis Dunn, if so, which seems a little unexpected. If it's accurate, then maybe a mention of co-directorship should be noted? -- Bovineone 05:22, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
- I've removed this line from the Directors section: "Dr. Tsien Hsue-shen, 1949 – 1955." According to [3] he is not listed as any of the directors. According to the wikipedia page on that person, he was also deported in 1955. -- Bovineone 05:36, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Location of JPL
JPL is in PASADENA not LA CANADA ... JPL is sandwiched between La Canada, Pasadena, Altadena and the LA National forest ... I hope to correct the article in due time —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.226.18.131 (talk • contribs) .
- That is an extremely common misperception, partly because of the association with Caltech in Pasadena, and partly because, as you point out, it is near several boundaries. The final contributing factor is that JPL has a Pasadena mailing address (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, California 91109), but that is just the mailing address. Here is a quote from a JPL pres release: "The Laboratory is located near the 210 Freeway in La Canada Flintridge, about 2 miles north of the Pasadena Rose Bowl." [4]
- Check your Thomas Guide, p. 535 E4, for example, and you will clearly see that JPL is in La Cañada Flintridge, California and not in Pasadena. I checked three online map sources, and unfortunately none of them show city boundaries, so you will have to check your Thomas Guide. BlankVerse 12:41, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
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- It was once explained to me that the front signage for the JPL campus is actually what is in Pasadena (the sign that most local TV reporters do their interviews in front of), and most of the campus lies across the city border in La Cañada.-- Bovineone 23:00, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wrightwood, California site
JPL has a facility near Wrightwood, California. Can someone with knowledge of the facility post here about it? Michaelh2001 09:56, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
