Jane Galloway, Kerri Agey and Dorothy Forks

The three women worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and were in a vanpool with seven other employees heading for work over a mountain road. Some of the 10 had been riding together for nine years; an 11th member of the pool was following behind, in his own car, since he needed to go somewhere later. The van skidded off the road and over a 400-ft embankment. Galloway, a business operations manager; Agey, a security administrator; and Forks, who worked in the Lab's Human Resources department, were killed. Others had injuries ranging from minor to severe. Galloway was 49, Agey was 48, and Forks 53. They died together on December 8. Author's Note: Several readers sent me alerts about this crash -- I worked at JPL for 10 years, and that's where This is True got its start. I quit my Day Job at JPL in 1996 to work on True full time. During my stint there, I was the founding Vice President of the JPL Writers Club. One of the victims in the crash, Kerri Agey, was a member. She was a quiet woman who sometimes had to leave the lunchtime meetings early to be back to work on time; she had a demanding job. --Randy Cassingham From This is True for 5 December 2004 Suggestions for further reading: Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes by Michael Benson Amazon Price: $16.47 Customer Review: There's like 20 huge color photo's of some moon of Jupiter that looks like the ugliest tumor or nastiest zit you've ever seen. But NO color pictures of the most beautiful majestic planet in the solar system Saturn???   Landscapes of Mars: A Visual Tour by Gregory L. Vogt Amazon Price: $20.83 Customer Review: I'm reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars and there is so much in it about the topography of Mars that I wanted a Mars Atlas so I could look up each area Robinson mentioned. I hoped this book would allow that. It doesn't. There is no index so it is...   Space Systems Failures: Disasters and Rescues of Satellites, Rockets and Spac... by David M. Harland, Ralph D. Lorenz Amazon Price: $29.67 Customer Review: ... by which I mean a small amount of information about each of a large number of facts, with very little analysis or insight. And, just about as interesting to read as chapter after chapter of encyclopedia entries. Looking at ea...   Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft (Out... by Jay Gallentine Amazon Price: $25.51 Customer Review: I have read most of the reviews of this book. I have a question--were any of you alive then? I do not care what the author calls something a "doo hickey". I think this is charming. I was alive and kicking when all of these little spacecraft were laun...   Lunar Outpost: The Challenges of Establishing a Human Settlement on the Moon ... by Erik Seedhouse Amazon Price: $22.84 Customer Review: This is a well-researched and informative book, but don't be expecting a casual read. This is purpose-driven material, and reads like it. It serves as a firm grounding in the new thinking behind lunar bases and more, but does so in the fashion of a d...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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