John R. Tavis and family move to Mariposa.
TAVIS hosted an open house to acquaint the community with the Tavis operation and its capabilities. Attendees included Mariposa County Development Corporation, Mariposa Chamber of Commerce, and the Mariposa Lions Club. At this time, Tavis employed a total of 8 employees.
P110 transducer used on off-shore oil rigs
Supplied pressure transducers for flight test instrumentation in the McDonnell Douglas DC-10
Apollo-Soyuz
First submarine application for TAVIS transducers
Contract won for Viking Lander
Nuclear Power Plant containment dome pressure measurement
First shuttle flight achievement awarded to all Tavis employees
Input/Ouput was the first employee newsletter, originating in May of 1981, At this time it didn’t have a name but they held a competition to find one! Input/Output became the name of our newsletter thanks to Violet Huebert.
100+ TAVIS transducers on the space shuttle orbiter
Supplied transducers for Galileo Probe, the first spacecraft to orbit a planet.
Silver Snoopy awarded to 5 TAVIS employees. The Silver Snoopy award is a special honor awarded to NASA employees and contractors for outstanding achievements related to human flight safety or mission success.
Mars InSight landed on Mars with the purpose to help scientists understand the formation and early evolution of all rocky planets. Upon the auxiliary payload sensor subsystem sits the Temperature and Wind for InSight instrument(TWINS). InSight’s atmospheric pressure sensor sits inside the lander, with access to the atmosphere via an inlet on the lander deck. TAVISCorporation, Mariposa, California, built it. The device has more than 10-fold greater sensitivity to pressure variations at seismic frequencies than similar pressure sensors on NASA’s Viking and Mars Pathfinder landers