Mission Team
While numerous individuals make vital contributions without which this mission could not occur, key team members include:
Project Manager | John B. McNamee |
Deputy Project Manager | Matthew T. Wallace |
Project Scientist | Ken Farley |
Deputy Project Scientist | Ken Williford |
Deputy Project Scientist | Katie Morgan Stack |
Science Office Manager | Nicole Spanovich |
Project System Engineering Manager | Jennifer Trosper |
Deputy Project System Engineering Manager | Kirk Breitenbach |
Project Chief Engineer | Adam Steltzner |
Deputy Project Chief Engineer | Keith Comeaux |
Flight Systems Manager | Jeff Srinivasan |
Deputy Flight Systems Manager | Ray Baker |
Heatshield Rebuild Lead | Jeff Weiss |
ATLO Manager | Dave Gruel |
Deputy ATLO Manager | Art Thompson |
Flight System Systems Engineer | Jessica Samuels |
Cross-Cutting Phase Lead | Magdy Bareh |
Launch, Cruise & Approach Phase Lead | John Essmiller |
EDL Phase Lead | Al Chen |
Surface Phase Lead | Robert Hogg |
Sample Caching Phase Lead | Jessica Samuels |
Payload Manager | Soren Madsen |
Deputy Payload Manager | Kevin Clark |
Payload System Engineer | Joan Ervin |
Mission System Development Manager | Arthur Amador |
Mission System Development Deputy Manager | Mike Wilson |
Mission System Development Assistant Manager, LCAE Phase |
Fernando Abilleira |
Mission System Development Assistant Manager, Surface Phase |
Pauline Hwang |
Mission System Engineer | Rob Lange |
Ground Data System Manager | James Kurien |
Ground Data System Deputy Manager | Guy Pyrzak |
Mission Assurance Manager | Mark Underwood |
Deputy Mission Assurance Manager | Cate Harris |
Business Manager | Todd Cetti |
Project Resource Analyst Lead | Audrey Joya |
Project Schedule Analyst Lead | Tim Clark |
Business Administration Manager | Page Garcia |
Project Staff Assistants | Monica Hopper Victoria Sanchez |
Business Administrator | Amy Dickinson |
Principal Investigators
Mastcam-Z | James Bell Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA Full Team List |
MEDA | Jose Rodriguez-Manfredi Centro de Astrobiologia, Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial, Spain Full Team List |
MOXIE | Michael Hecht Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Full Team List |
PIXL | Abigail Allwood NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA, USA Full Team List |
RIMFAX | Svein-Erik Hamran Forsvarets Forskningsinstitutt, Norway Full Team List |
SHERLOC | Luther Beegle NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA, USA Full Team List |
SuperCam | Roger Wiens Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA Full Team List |
View also members of the science definition team.

We Are the Martians
Meet the people from around the world who have made contributions to the exploration of Mars.
Meet the Martians ›