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.
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
David Napolillo
Mechanical Design Engineer
Anthony Needles
Flight Software Engineer
Kenneth Newsome
Electrical Systems Engineer; Project Manager
Lillian Nguyen
Software Engineer
Jorge Núñez
Planetary Scientist; Astrobiologist; Systems Engineer
Colleen O'Shea
Scientific Software Developer
Shin-ichi Ohtani
space physicist
Christopher Paranicas
Planetary Scientist
Gerald (Wes) Patterson
Planetary geologist
Larry Paxton
principal investigator; aeronomer; space scientist
Patrick Peplowski
Nuclear spectroscopist; Experimental nuclear physicist; Radiation physicist