All,

For those long-term CRaTER team members,  please see the news regarding a newly-named crater in honor of Craig Tooley, LRO’s original mission Project Manager.  He was absolutely terrific and such a great friend. I have many fond memories of his life lived so well (some involving pirates) though a life that ended far too early. 

Best wishes,
- Harlan

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From: Harlan <spence@guero.sr.unh.edu>
Date: November 19, 2020 at 9:24:07 PM EST
To: Mark Robinson <robinson@ser.asu.edu>
Cc: lroc-science-internal@ser.asu.edu, David Paige <dap@mars.ucla.edu>, Harlan.Spence@unh.edu, Ernest Cisneros <ecisneros@asu.edu>, Dave Smith <David.E.Smith@nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: [LROC ST] Fwd: Name Approved: Tooley

Mark,

This is just such great news!  Thanks to you and all for making this happen.  Such a thoughtful and fitting tribute that will so enduringly honor Craig’s contributions to lunar science and his legacy of space exploration leadership. 

May I please share this news with my MMS colleagues?  

Thanks,
- Harlan

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On Nov 19, 2020, at 3:10 PM, Ernest Cisneros <ecisneros@asu.edu> wrote:

 Awesome news!,

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On Nov 19, 2020, at 11:44 AM, Mark Robinson <robinson@ser.asu.edu> wrote:




IAU approved crater name in honor of Craig Tooley!



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Subject: Name Approved: Tooley
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 19:28:27 +0000
From: Gaither, Tenielle A <tgaither@usgs.gov>
To: Mark Robinson <robinson@ser.asu.edu>
CC: Nomenclature, GS-ASC Astro <gs-astro_nomenclature@usgs.gov>, Gaither, Tenielle A <tgaither@usgs.gov>


Dear Mark,

The IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature has approved your request for the name Tooley for this lunar crater. The name may now be used in journal articles, maps, presentations, and other publications.

The feature page in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature can be found here: https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/15938

We are having some technical difficulties with uploading the new LAC-144 nomenclature map to the website, but it should be resolved in a day or two.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

 

Best regards,

Tenielle

 

From: Mark Robinson <robinson@ser.asu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 10:21 AM
To: Gaither, Tenielle A <tgaither@usgs.gov>
Cc: Prof. Dr. Harald Hiesinger <hiesinger@uni-muenster.de>; Nomenclature, GS-ASC Astro <gs-astro_nomenclature@usgs.gov>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Attempted Name request

 

 

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On 9/16/20 10:13 AM, Gaither, Tenielle A wrote:

Hi Mark,

Sorry about the problems with the webpage. We’ve been working on a complete refactor of the website and background database and the name request page keeps needing a reboot. It’s always fine to email me directly.

I took a quick look at the info you provided – looks complete, thank you. The name looks to fit the theme, but as the three-year mark of his passing isn’t till 9/27, I’ll have to wait until that day to send the proposal out to the Task Group (they are quite particular about that!).

Sounds reasonable. Should wait to submit the manuscript, or just pit something like (provisional name) after we use Tooley? We can do whatever the powers that be decide in revision.

Many thanks!

 

I’ll prepare the proposal documents and let you know if I need anything else!

 

Thanks, and best regards,

Tenielle

 

 

 

From: Mark Robinson <robinson@ser.asu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 9:50 AM
To: Gaither, Tenielle A <tgaither@usgs.gov>
Cc: Prof. Dr. Harald Hiesinger <hiesinger@uni-muenster.de>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Attempted Name request

 

 

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Hi Tenielle,

I just attempted to submitted a name request through the IAU webpage and got kicked out with a series of errors that made no sense. In Firefox the error screen indicated that most fields were blank, you can see from the screen cap that I filled in the fields. I tried again using canvas and got the URL cannot be found error.

So here is my request manually:

Moon

Crater

N lat -87.93

S lat -88.14

W lon 47.84

E lat 54.43

C lat -88.04

C lon 51.31

Positive East

7100 meter diameter

The annotated and not annotated images of the requested crater are attached.

Relatively large crater contained completely with the Shoemaker permanently shadowed region. This crater exhibits unusual morphology possibly indicative H2O enriched regolith. This crater is discussed in a manuscript nearing submission to PSS:

Estimating resource potential in sixty lunar permanently shadowed regions (PSRs): a guide to future mission planning
H.M. Brown, M.S. Robinson, A.K. Boyd, E.J. Speyerer, B.W. Denevi,  M. Manheim, R.V. Wagner, M. Henriksen

Name request: Tooley

Craig Tooley, NASA Engineer, LRO Project Manager, DOB  January 5 1960, DOD September 27 2017

Background

Joined NASA Goddard July 5, 1983 after earning his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Evansville, 1983.  While at Goddard he earned his Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, 1990

Started his career at NASA in the Goddard Special Payloads Division (SPD) as a mechanical engineer working in structures, thermal engineering, and attitude control and stabilization engineering in SPD’s skunk-works type environment

He served as the mission manager and mechanical lead for five successful Spartan 201 heliophysics missions deployed during space shuttle missions flown on STS-56, STS-64, STS-69, STS-87, and STS-95

While in SPD, he also held the position of associate branch head of the Carrier Systems Branch

He joined the Flight Projects Directorate in~1996

Served as the Deputy Project Manager for the Triana, which would later become today’s DSCOVR mission

Served as head of the Hubble Space Telescope Instrument Development Office where he oversaw the development of instruments that were to be installed on Hubble during the fifth and final servicing mission.  He worked as part of the spacewalk servicing team, which developed procedures and trained astronauts for the successful Hubble Servicing Mission 3B in 2002.

Served as the Project Manager for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, which was successfully launched in July 2009.  LRO initially collected data that was essential for understanding the lunar surface, and it continues to enable numerous groundbreaking discoveries, creating a new picture of the moon as a dynamic and complex body.

Served as the Project Manager for the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, which was successfully launched in March 2015 to study the Earth's magnetosphere and the little-understood phenomenon called magnetic reconnection.

In October 2015, Craig joined the Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate as Deputy Director, responsible for oversight of our programmatic instrument and mission deliverables. 

During his tenure with AETD, Craig was a champion for development of new technologies such as a significantly smaller electronics system known as MUSTANG, which is short for Modular Unified Space Technology Avionics for Next Generation missions.  Leveraging knowledge gained during the development of MMS, Craig spearheaded this effort.  The key to MUSTANG's success has been the integration of hardware and software design from day one to provide maximum processing performance and flexibility.

Craig was also AETD’s champion for CubeSats and low-cost SmallSats as an emerging capability offering NASA agile low cost options for enabling scientific discovery, technology, training, and education.

He was the recipient of numerous awards, most notably Craig was a recipient of 2 NASA Outstanding Leadership Medals for both his work on the LRO and MMS missions.

 

 

Apologies for the inconvenience,

 

Mark Robinson

 

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