JPL-watchers of a certain age will be very sad to hear that Alan Wood was buried this weekend, a JPL spokesman who helped coordinate news coverage of the Mariner, Viking, Voyager and Galileo missions. He was a man of unfailing courtesy and professionalism.

I must admit that in all the years I relied upon him, I never knew he was one of the heroes of Iwo Jima !

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-...0,6445543.story
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A nice obituary. I remember Alan very well from the days of Voyager, when he taped a weekly status report as a phone message - daily during encounters - and in those far-off days before the WWW I would phone in for my Voyager fix.

Phil