Dr. Jim Lochner - Jim, a scientist who worked for the RXTE Guest Observer Facility, is the new head of Education and Public Outreach for the HEASARC. He created this site with James Humphreys during the summer of 1995. Jim continues to guide and oversee the development of the website (when he's not listening to CarTalk or following the Bowie Baysox!).

Maggie Masetti - Maggie, a graduate of Penn State physics and astronomy, is the primary programmer for our learning center, also writing and creating graphics for it. She has also seen Star Wars: The Phantom Menace more times than she cares to admit.

Lisa Williamson - Lisa, a teacher at Drew Freeman Middle School in Maryland, joined us in the Summer of 1999, helping to design our Space Journey Adventure Unit! She is also working to develop an workshop with us for the Spring 2000 NSTA meeting.

Rachelle Andrews - Rachelle was our Teacher Intern for Summer 1998; she wrote a lesson plan on Graphing with RXTE. She also evaluated our "Shedding a New Light on the Universe" feature.

Bud Worth - Bud was the Summer Teacher Intern for 1997. He contributed by helping us "Tour the ASM" on an X-ray photon. He wrote the ASM Lesson Plan on making your own weather map.

James Humphreys - One of the originators of the RXTE Learning Center, he spent the summer of 1995 with us at Goddard Space Flight Center as a Teacher Intern. He is responsible for the RXTE Learning Center lesson plans on X-ray pulsars, X-ray bursters, and precessing accretion disks, and he created our guide to "Using the HEASARC".

Ed Sabol - Ed is our Perl and CGI Guru. He helped us out with the cgi-scripting involved with our dynamic ASM web tools.

Rossi the Chipmunk - Rossi, the "web-savvy" Chipmunk, is the fearless mascot of the RXTE Learning Center. He is named after Bruno Rossi.

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