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Charley Kohlhase and Richard Spehalski with Cassini and the DVD

Charley Kohlhase and Richard Spehalski with Cassini and the DVD
Charley Kohlhase and Richard Spehalski with Cassini and the DVD In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at Kennedy Space center, Charley Kohlhase (left), then Cassini's science and mission design manager, and Richard Spehalski, then program manager of the Cassini mission, display the DVD bearing 616,400 digitized signatures from people around the world, before it is attached to the Cassini spacecraft in the background. The handwritten signatures were scanned by volunteers from The Planetary Society.