Cassini expert tells spiritual and scientific journey

Blaine Baggett says one of Saturn's 31 moons sports a geyser like Earth's steamy Old Faithful, only made of ice, and yet another has a crater reminiscent of the Star Wars movie's Death Star killing machine.

He considers himself a mere storyteller but, as an executive communications manager for the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a partner with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the $3.27 billion Cassini-Huygens project, he has a huge job--to tell the world about the universe.

"There aren't many people who get to go to their job and leave the planet every day," says Baggett, 53, executive manager of JPL's Office of Communications and Education, and a parishioner at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena. He also believes the outward journey magnifies the inner one.

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Article By Pat McCaughan