Dinner Photo1 - Attendees at the Low-Thrust TIM hosted by JPL in Pasadena in August, 2004 had a great time chowing down at a local fine-dining establishment.  Folks near the front of this photo are Tara, Larry, Steve, ... & Samantha, Juan A-C & Dr Juan S.

Dinner Photo 2 - The attendees at the Low-Thrust TIM hosted by JPL in Pasadena in August, 2004.

Tools Image - Publicity poster reading "Never underestimate the importance of your tools!"

Photo - Asteroid mission design honored at Marshall roll-out of new software se.t
Theresa Kowalkowski, left, and Matt Vavrina, center, of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., receive a trophy commemorating the win by the JPL team in the European Space Agency's Global Trajectory Optimization Competition. The team used new software to design a spectacular mission to a main-belt asteroid. The software is called MALTO - short for Mission Analysis Low-Thrust Optimization. It is one of five "tools" that comprise the suite of Low-Thrust Trajectory Tools, new software for analyzing missions that use low-thrust propulsion technologies. Kowalkowski and Vavrina were among nearly 50 participants from five NASA centers who attended a technical interchange meeting hosted by Marshall to roll out the new tools. Larry Kos, right, an aerospace engineer from Marshall's Advanced Concepts Office, led the collaborative effort to create the tools.
Link to Marshal Star article: http://marshallstar.msfc.nasa.gov/3-30-06.pdf
Link to Marshal Star article: http://marshallstar.msfc.nasa.gov/4-6-06.pdf