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Topic: Pete Theisinger, Mars rover director (1945-2024)
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Robert Pearlman
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posted 07-19-2024 05:32 PM
   
Pete Theisinger, who throughout his 49-year career, led a number of major robotic missions for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), including three Mars rovers — Curiosity, Spirit and Opportunity. He died on June 26, 2024 after a long illness at the age of 78. As an engineer, Theisinger worked on the 1967 Mariner mission to Venus, the 1971 Mariner orbiter mission to Mars, the 1977 Voyager mission to the solar system's outer planets and the 1989 Galileo mission to Jupiter.He was perhaps best known for his role shepherding Mars rover missions. With JPL colleague Richard Cook, he was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2013 for his work on Curiosity, and he was honored in 2017 with a lifetime achievement award from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.  |
GACspaceguy
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