Charles Elachi
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"Charles Elachi", born April 18, 1947 in

Lebanon [http://www.cedarsusa.com/profiles/science/charleselachi.htm Cedars Network US Directory: Dr. Charles Elachi, Director of JPL].

Cedars Network. Retrieved on 2008-02-20. is the

Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), located in

Pasadena, California. He has held this position since May 1, 2001

and also holds professorships in electrical engineering and planetary

science at Caltech.

Elachi is the director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and vice

president of the California Institute of Technology.

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We will never be as close to the rings as that first pass.

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Every month we do a bold adventure. This is the golden age of space exploration.

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Now we have a permanent scientific presence on another planet.

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We really do have a permanent presence around that planet.

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With the agency's go-ahead, we can proceed with this intriguing mission that will explore two asteroids from deep in the heart of the asteroid belt.

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I do not expect to see any creatures on [Titan's] surface, but if they're there we'll see them.

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We are bringing a piece of the sun down to Earth. That's going to give us some fundamental understanding of our origins.

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That is what I am delighted about; the fact that they were having a hard time picking one mission and decided to give it to the collective work that we do at this institution.

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