Mission Team
Mars Exploration Rover Team Management
Several hundred people make the Mars Exploration Rover Mission possible. Below is a list of the project management only.
| Project Manager | John Callas |
| Project System Engineer | Robert Nelson |
| Project Scientist | Matthew Golombek |
| Deputy Project Scientist | Abigail Fraeman |
| Mission Operations Assurance Manager | Patricia Lock |
| Mission Operations | Matt Keuneke |
| Project Resource Analyst | Martha Pruden-Hamiter |
| Project Staff Assistant | Emma Ramos |
Team Photos
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Opportunity: Landing
Entry, descent and landing manager, Rob Manning (facing camera), hugs Richard Cook, the current Mars Exploration Rover project manager after Opportunity's successful landing at Meridiani Planum, Mars.
January 24, 2004
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Opportunity: Landing
Dr. Wayne Lee, chief engineer for development of the Mars Exploration Rover's descent and landing systems proudly waves a broom, indicating a clean martian sweep.
January 24, 2004
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Opportunity: Landing
Dr. Ed Weiler, associate administrator, Office of Space Science, NASA Headquarters and Mars Exploration Program manager, Dr. Firouz Naderi (right) are delighted with the news of Opportunity's safe entry, descent and landing on Mars.
January 24, 2004
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Spirit: Egress
From left: Dave Lavery, program executive for Solar System Exploration at NASA Headquarters, Dr. Ed Weiler, associate administrator, Office of Space Science, NASA Headquarters, Pete Theisinger, (former) Mars Exploration Rover project manager and JPL lab director, Dr. Charles Elachi celebrate the success of Spirit's landing and transmission of first images.
January 15, 2004
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Team members viewing some of Spirit's first 3-D images
A crowd of excited men and women who work on the Mars Exploration Rover mission are wearing white paper 3-D glasses with red and blue lenses to view some of the Spirit rover's first three-dimensional images. Some are seated behind console work stations, while others are standing, trying to get the best view. Team members viewing some of Spirit's first 3-D images
January 15, 2004
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Spirit: Landing
Members of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission's Entry, Descent and Landing team rejoice at the news that mission control received its first signal from Spirit, indicating the rover's safe arrival at Gusev Crater on Mars.
January 3, 2004
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Spirit: First Images
Dr. Steve Squyres, principal investigator for the science instruments on both Mars Exploration Rovers, celebrates as the team witnesses the first images sent back from Spirit.
January 3, 2004
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Spirit: First Images
From left: Dave Lavery, program executive for Solar System Exploration at NASA Headquarters, Dr. Ed Weiler, associate administrator, Office of Space Science, NASA Headquarters, Pete Theisinger, (former) Mars Exploration Rover project manager and JPL lab director, Dr. Charles Elachi celebrate the success of Spirit's landing and transmission of first images.
January 3, 2004
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Mars Exploration Rover team members
Athena Science team members and other Mars Exploration Rover team members pose for a photo at JPL.
January 1, 2004
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Spirit: Women on the Mars Exploration Rover team
This photo shows fifteen of the women engineers and scientists who work on the Mars Exploration Rover. They are standing behind or kneeling beside a precise replica of the rover in the mission control room.
January 1, 2004
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Team members in JPL's Spacecraft Assembly Facility
A team of about 50 men and women in white and blue cleanroom smocks and bonnets stand and sit around their creations: Spirit and Opportunity. The twin rovers of the Mars Exploration Rover mission are about the size of golf carts. The significantly smaller, microwave-sized Sojourner rover from the 1997 Pathfinder mission sits in the middle.
February 10, 2003
JPL Mars Marathon ›
JPL employees show their support for the Opportunity rover's marathon-run on Mars, by running a marathon-length relay of their own on April 9, 2015. View the celebration ›
We Are The Martians ›
Meet the people from around the world who have made contributions to the exploration of Mars.
