PASADENA, Calif. — The new project manager for the longest-working spacecraft currently active at Mars, NASA’s Mars Odyssey, has a long track record himself. He is Gaylon McSmith, a former pilot of ...
Dr. Jeffrey Plaut has been named project scientist for NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey mission, succeeding Dr. R. Stephen Saunders who has retired. Plaut had been the deputy project scientist for Odyssey.