
Reaching Outer Space Starts with a Team that Goes Farther
Imagine creating spacecraft and instruments that travel millions —sometimes billions — of miles to explore planets, moons, asteroids and even the Sun. It’s what the people of APL Civil Space get to do every day. And our success begins with our team’s passion and incomparable expertise. Meet the scientists, engineers and other professionals who collaborate to expand humanity’s reach and knowledge.
Kathleen Mandt
Chief Scientist for Exoplanets; Planetary Scientist
Anna Martin
Remote sensing specialist
M Alexandra Matiella Novak
Planetary Geologist/Volcanologist; Mission Operations
Barry Mauk
Space Physicist
Erin May
Exoplanet Astronomer
Laura Mayorga
Exoplanet Astronomer
Richard Meitzler
Electrical Engineer, Subsystem Lead
Viacheslav Merkin
Space physicist
Heather Meyer
Planetary Geologist
Wesley Millard
Electrical System Engineer; Frontier Radio Co-Inventor
Richard Miller
Astrophysicist; Nuclear physicist; Planetary scientist
Donald Mitchell
Instrument Designer; Planetary magnetospheres Physicist; Heliospheric Physicist
Parisa Mostafavi
Space physicist
Scott Murchie
Planetary geologist; Instrument principal investigator
A. Nair
Scientific Software Developer