Juan Baldonado
Juan Baldonado is a Senior Technician, ISR-1. Baldonado has worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory for 35 years including 19 years of Space Flight instrument experience. That experience includes:
- Programmatic Satellites—20 instruments
- NASA Missions—21 instruments
Some highlights of Baldonado’s work include:
- The Ulysses Space Probe launched in 1990 in Polar orbit around the Sun. This is the first manmade probe to leave the ecliptic.
- The Cassini Mission to Saturn, which was the last of the big NASA planetary explorers.
- The Lunar Prospector that discovered water ice on the lunar poles.
- The Genesis Mission, which is the only mission to return to earth from beyond the moon..
Baldonado is one of a select few individuals whose name is etched on a plaque that lies on the moon’s surface.
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Search for Carol Clark's article on Juan Baldonado in the Los Alamos Monitor
 
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