Mission Team Members
Mission Team Members
- Dr. Mike A'Hearn
Principal Investigator, EPOXI
- Dr. Drake Deming
Deputy PI, EPOCh
- Dr. Jessica Sunshine
Deputy PI, DIXI
- Tim Larson
Project Manager
Many of the scientists, engineers, outreach and other personnel from Deep Impact are also working on the DIXI half EPOXI. There's also all of the new folks working on the EPOCh half. Learn about how they decided they wanted a career in space and what they like to do when they aren't working on the EPOXI Mission.
- Matt Abrahamson
- AutoNav Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Michael F. A'Hearn
- EPOXI Principal Investigator, U. Maryland
- Sarah Ballard
- Graduate Student, Harvard
- Thomas Bank
- Systems Engineer,
- Richard Barry
- EPOCh Science Collaborator, GSFC
- Michael J. S. Belton
- DIXI Co-Investigator, Belton Space Exploration Initiatives
- Sébastien Besse
- Research Associate, U. Maryland
- Amanda Briden
- Mission Planner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Ray Brown
- Science Writer, U. Maryland
- Brian Thomas Carcich
- Science Data Center Manager, Cornell
- Steve Collins
- Attitude Control Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Judy Counley
- Media Manager, McREL
- Nick Cowan
- Graduate Student, U. Washington
- Carolyn Crow
- Graduate Student, UCLA
- Alan Delamere
- DIXI Co-Investigator, BATC
- Drake Deming
- Deputy PI (EPOCh), GSFC
- John Diehl
- Ground Systems Software Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Lori Feaga
- Asst Research Scientist, U. Maryland
- Oliver Groussin
- Research Associate
- Don Hampton
- Systems Engineer
- Malcolm Hartley
- Astronomer
- Tilak Hewagama
- EPOCh Co-Investigator, GSFC
- Marty Huisjen
- Instrument Technical Manager
- Lindley Johnson
- Program Executive, NASA HQ
- Michael "HQ" Kelley
- Program Scientist, NASA HQ
- Michael "Terp" Kelley
- Research Associate, U. Maryland
- Jochen Kissel
- DIXI Co-Investigator, Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik
- Kenneth P. Klaasen
- Co-Investigator, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Greg LaBorde
- Activity Lead / Flight Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Tim Larson
- EPOXI Project Manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Casey Lisse
- Co-Investigator, JHUAPL
- Tim Livengood
- EPOCh Co-Investigator, GSFC
- DIXI Lucy McFadden
- Co-Investigator, U. Maryland
- Vikki Meadows
- EPOCh Co-Investigator, U. Washington
- Karen Meech
- DIXI Co-Investigator, U. Hawaii
- H. Jay Melosh
- DIXI Co-Investigator, Purdue University
- Leticia Montanez
- Flight Software, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Albert Nakata
- Mission Manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Rich Rieber
- Testbed Manager, Activity Lead, and Flight Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- John Ristvey
- Senior Director, McREL
- Tyler Robinson
- Graduate Student, U. Washington
- Felicia Sanders
- Ground Systems Telemetry Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Beth Sholes
- Principal Propulsion Engineer, Ball Aerospace
- Peter Schultz
- DIXI Co-Investigator, Brown University
- Jessica M. Sunshine
- Deputy PI (DIXI), U. Maryland
- Jim Taylor
- EPOXI Flight Team Telecom Lead Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Peter C. Thomas
- DIXI Co-Investigator, Cornell University
- Joseph Veverka
- DIXI Co-Investigator, Cornell University
- Elizabeth Warner
- Webmaster, U. Maryland
- Dennis Wellnitz
- Co-Investigator, U. Maryland
- Jade Williams
- Faculty Research Assistant, U. Maryland
- Steve Wissler
- Mission Operations Systems Engineer and Encounter Flight Director for the Flyby Spacecraft, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Donald K. Yeomans
- Co-Investigator, Jet Propulsion Laboratory