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Randy Kirk at an open house at the Luftwaffe Museum, Gatow.
While in Berlin for a Mars camera team meeting, Randy tries out the cockpit of a Soviet-built Mi-24 helicopter at an open house at the Luftwaffe Museum, Gatow. The radio-controlled helicopters he flies at home are much smaller and unarmed!
While in Berlin for a Mars camera team meeting, Randy tries out the cockpit of a Soviet-built Mi-24 helicopter at an open house at the Luftwaffe Museum, Gatow. The radio-controlled helicopters he flies at home are much smaller and unarmed!
Randy Kirk at an open house at the Luftwaffe Museum, Gatow.

While in Berlin for a Mars camera team meeting, Randy tries out the cockpit of a Soviet-built Mi-24 helicopter at an open house at the Luftwaffe Museum, Gatow. The radio-controlled helicopters he flies at home are much smaller and unarmed!

While in Berlin for a Mars camera team meeting, Randy tries out the cockpit of a Soviet-built Mi-24 helicopter at an open house at the Luftwaffe Museum, Gatow. The radio-controlled helicopters he flies at home are much smaller and unarmed!

While in Berlin for a Mars camera team meeting, Randy tries out the cockpit of a Soviet-built Mi-24 helicopter at an open house at the Luftwaffe Museum, Gatow. The radio-controlled helicopters he flies at home are much smaller and unarmed!

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Randy Kirk at an open house at the Luftwaffe Museum, Gatow.

While in Berlin for a Mars camera team meeting, Randy tries out the cockpit of a Soviet-built Mi-24 helicopter at an open house at the Luftwaffe Museum, Gatow. The radio-controlled helicopters he flies at home are much smaller and unarmed!

While in Berlin for a Mars camera team meeting, Randy tries out the cockpit of a Soviet-built Mi-24 helicopter at an open house at the Luftwaffe Museum, Gatow. The radio-controlled helicopters he flies at home are much smaller and unarmed!

While in Berlin for a Mars camera team meeting, Randy tries out the cockpit of a Soviet-built Mi-24 helicopter at an open house at the Luftwaffe Museum, Gatow. The radio-controlled helicopters he flies at home are much smaller and unarmed!

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Office of Science Quality and Integrity
Randy with one of NASA’s T-38 jets used for astronaut training at Ellington Field.
Randy with one of NASA’s T-38 jets used for astronaut training at Ellington Field.
Randy with one of NASA’s T-38 jets used for astronaut training at Ellington Field.
Randy with one of NASA’s T-38 jets used for astronaut training at Ellington Field.

Randy with one of NASA’s T-38 jets used for astronaut training at Ellington Field.

Randy with one of NASA’s T-38 jets used for astronaut training at Ellington Field.

Randy with one of NASA’s T-38 jets used for astronaut training at Ellington Field.

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Randy with one of NASA’s T-38 jets used for astronaut training at Ellington Field.

Randy with one of NASA’s T-38 jets used for astronaut training at Ellington Field.

Randy with one of NASA’s T-38 jets used for astronaut training at Ellington Field.

Randy with one of NASA’s T-38 jets used for astronaut training at Ellington Field.

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Randy Kirk (right) and Astrogeology planetary geodesist Brent Archinal (left) at the controls of NASA’s Flying Guppy.
Randy Kirk (right) and Astrogeology planetary geodesist Brent Archinal (left) at the controls of NASA’s Flying Guppy transport aircraft at Ellington Field.
Randy Kirk (right) and Astrogeology planetary geodesist Brent Archinal (left) at the controls of NASA’s Flying Guppy transport aircraft at Ellington Field.
Randy Kirk (right) and Astrogeology planetary geodesist Brent Archinal (left) at the controls of NASA’s Flying Guppy.

Randy Kirk (right) and Astrogeology planetary geodesist Brent Archinal (left) at the controls of NASA’s Flying Guppy transport aircraft at Ellington Field.

Randy Kirk (right) and Astrogeology planetary geodesist Brent Archinal (left) at the controls of NASA’s Flying Guppy transport aircraft at Ellington Field.

Randy Kirk (right) and Astrogeology planetary geodesist Brent Archinal (left) at the controls of NASA’s Flying Guppy transport aircraft at Ellington Field.

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Randy Kirk (right) and Astrogeology planetary geodesist Brent Archinal (left) at the controls of NASA’s Flying Guppy.

Randy Kirk (right) and Astrogeology planetary geodesist Brent Archinal (left) at the controls of NASA’s Flying Guppy transport aircraft at Ellington Field.

Randy Kirk (right) and Astrogeology planetary geodesist Brent Archinal (left) at the controls of NASA’s Flying Guppy transport aircraft at Ellington Field.

Randy Kirk (right) and Astrogeology planetary geodesist Brent Archinal (left) at the controls of NASA’s Flying Guppy transport aircraft at Ellington Field.

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Astrogeology Scientist Emeritus Randy Kirk with fellow Caltech-er Al, at Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles.
Astrogeology Scientist Emeritus Randy Kirk with fellow Caltech-er Al, at Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, for the Europa Clipper meeting in February 2023.
Astrogeology Scientist Emeritus Randy Kirk with fellow Caltech-er Al, at Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, for the Europa Clipper meeting in February 2023.
Astrogeology Scientist Emeritus Randy Kirk with fellow Caltech-er Al, at Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles.

Astrogeology Scientist Emeritus Randy Kirk with fellow Caltech-er Al, at Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, for the Europa Clipper meeting in February 2023.

Astrogeology Scientist Emeritus Randy Kirk with fellow Caltech-er Al, at Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, for the Europa Clipper meeting in February 2023.

Astrogeology Scientist Emeritus Randy Kirk with fellow Caltech-er Al, at Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, for the Europa Clipper meeting in February 2023.

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Astrogeology Scientist Emeritus Randy Kirk with fellow Caltech-er Al, at Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles.

Astrogeology Scientist Emeritus Randy Kirk with fellow Caltech-er Al, at Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, for the Europa Clipper meeting in February 2023.

Astrogeology Scientist Emeritus Randy Kirk with fellow Caltech-er Al, at Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, for the Europa Clipper meeting in February 2023.

Astrogeology Scientist Emeritus Randy Kirk with fellow Caltech-er Al, at Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, for the Europa Clipper meeting in February 2023.

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Randy holds the titanium cover to the Europa Clipper electronics “vault” at the mission meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Randy holds the titanium cover to the Europa Clipper electronics “vault” at the mission meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico in November 2023.
Randy holds the titanium cover to the Europa Clipper electronics “vault” at the mission meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico in November 2023.
Randy holds the titanium cover to the Europa Clipper electronics “vault” at the mission meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Randy holds the titanium cover to the Europa Clipper electronics “vault” at the mission meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico in November 2023.

Randy holds the titanium cover to the Europa Clipper electronics “vault” at the mission meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico in November 2023.

Randy holds the titanium cover to the Europa Clipper electronics “vault” at the mission meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico in November 2023. The cover is engraved with the poem "In Praise of Mystery" by the U.S.

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Randy holds the titanium cover to the Europa Clipper electronics “vault” at the mission meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Randy holds the titanium cover to the Europa Clipper electronics “vault” at the mission meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico in November 2023.

Randy holds the titanium cover to the Europa Clipper electronics “vault” at the mission meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico in November 2023.

Randy holds the titanium cover to the Europa Clipper electronics “vault” at the mission meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico in November 2023. The cover is engraved with the poem "In Praise of Mystery" by the U.S.

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