About the team
Led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), the Dragonfly team comprises scientists, space system engineers, managers, and more who have deep experience on missions that have explored the Solar System from the Sun to Pluto, and beyond, as well as experts in rotorcraft and autonomous flight. Mission partners include NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA GSFC), Lockheed Martin Space (LMS), NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Langley Research Center, Penn State University, Malin Space Science Systems, Honeybee Robotics, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and the Centre National d'études Spatiales (CNES).
Mission Leadership
Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle
Principal Investigator
Johns Hopkins APL
Melissa Trainer
Deputy Principal Investigator
Goddard Space Flight Center
Jason Barnes
Deputy Principal Investigator
University of Idaho
Peter Bedini
Project Manager
Johns Hopkins APL
Scott Murchie
Project Scientist
Johns Hopkins APL
Ralph Lorenz
Mission Architect
Johns Hopkins APL
Ken Hibbard
Mission Systems Engineer
Johns Hopkins APL
Doug Adams
Flight System Engineer
Johns Hopkins APL
Dragonfly Mission Team
Elisabeth Abel
APL
Yasin Abul-Huda
APL
Dewey Adams
APL
Angela Adams
LMS
Amy Alford
APL
William Ames
APL
Kyle Anderson
APL
Richard Anderson
APL
Mark Anderson
APL
Samantha Andrade
APL
Jeremy Armstrong
APL
Michael Arner
Collins Aerospace
David Artis
APL
Justin Artis
APL
Reza Ashtari
APL
Mauricio Ayllon Unzueta
NASA GSFC
Art Azarbarzin
APL
Caitlin Bacha
NASA GSFC
Ashish Bagai
APL
Vijay Baharani
APL
Vince Bailey
APL
Carson Baisden
APL
Vicky Baker
APL
Richard Ballard
NASA
Mihaela Ballarotto
APL
Jackson Banbury
APL
Pete Barfknecht
NASA GSFC
Dewey Barlow
APL
Jason Barnes
Univ of Idaho
Richard Barry
APL
Michael Battalio
Yale
Eric Bechard
Collins Aerospace
Robin Beck
NASA Ames
Luke Becker
APL
Peter Bedini
APL
Donna Behravesh
NASA GSFC
Melanie Bell
APL
Walter Bender
APL
Simmie Berman
JHU/APL
Terry Betenbaugh
APL
Shyam Bhaskaran
JPL
Tom Bialas
NASA GSFC
Samuel Bibelhauser
APL
Sam Birch
MIT
Judy Bitman
JHU/APL
Tyler Boehmer
APL
Lea Bonnefoy
Cornell University
Bret Bonner
NASA GSFC
Bruno Borgo
LESIA
Heather Borowski
APL
Connor Boss
APL
David Boulesteix
CentraleSupelec
Jeffrey Boye
APL
John Boyea
LMS
Robert Boyle
NASA GSFC
Aaron Brandis
AMA, Inc
Sarah Brandt
LMS
Marc Briere
APL
Will Brinckerhoff
NASA GSFC
Bruce Brooks
APL
Stephen Browne-Pike
Timothy Brubaker
APL
Andrea Bryant
Univ. of Chicago
Brian Bryce
APL
Arnaud Buch
CentraleSupelec
Michael Buckley
APL
David Buecher
LMS
Jim Burgum
APL
Linda Burke
APL
John Burke
APL
Michael Burkhart
Microtel LLC
Morgan Burks
LLNL
Stewart Bushman
APL
Mike Butler
APL
Morgan Cable
JPL
Christopher Caldwell
NASA GSFC
Andy Calloway
APL
John Calvert
NASA KSC
Christian Campo
APL
Nga Cao
SSAI
David Carrelli
APL/SES
Joe Casabona
LMS
Marco Castillo
NASA
Frederick Chapron
LESIA
Claire Charpentier
LMS
Audrey Chatain
LATMOS
Oscar Cheatom
NASA GSFC
Amelia Cherian
APL
Guillermo Chin
Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada
Eric Clarke
Idaho National Lab
John Clemens
APL
Troy Cline
JHU/APL Communications Department
Anthony Coburger
APL
Alice Cocoros
APL
Lowell Cogburn
LMS
Robert Coker
APL
Laureicia Colbert
APL
Tim Cole
APL
Betsy Congdon
APL
Michael Conner
APL
Suzie Cooney
Collins
Stan Cooper
APL
Dave Copeland
APL
Charlotte Corbel
LATMOS
Paul Corlies
MIT
Jason Cornelius
NASA Ames Research Center
Patrick Coronado
NASA GSFC
Lindsay Cox
APL
Barry Coyle
NASA GSFC
Brian Cranston
APL
Glenn Creamer
APL
Juan Cruz
NASA Langley
Neil Dalal
APL
Ryan Danell
Danell Consulting
Jennifer Davis
APL
Chris Deboy
APL
Kelvin DeFeo
APL
Wayne Dellinger
APL
William (Chip) Delmar
APL
Antonio Diaz-Calderon
APL
Keith Dill
NASA/PMPO
Amanda Dippold
JHUAPL
Spencer Disque
APL
Annette Dolbow
APL
Michelle Donegan
APL
Kyle Doubleday
JHUAPL
Anthony Drewicz
APL
Alexander Driskell
APL
Karolina DuBois
APL
Cory Dudley
NASA GFSC
Aubry Dunn
LMS
David Edell
APL
Karl Edquist
NASA Langley
Jeanne Eha
LMS
Peter Eisenreich
APL
Will Elgie
APL
Kori Eliaz
Lockheed Martin
Donald Ellison
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
Jacob Englander
APL
Anna Engle
Northern Arizona University
Carl Ercol
APL
Carolyn Ernst
APL
Ray Espiritu
APL
Robert Estes
NASA Langley
Anthony Fanelli
APL
Louis Fantano
John Farnan
APL
Kendra Farnsworth
GSFC
Katie Farrell
LMS
Lee Ferber
LMS
Adrienne Feres
APL
Cristina Fernandes
APL
Diarny Fernandes
APL
Benjamin Fernando
Oxford University
Paul Finneran
APL
Jacob Firer
APL
Rick Fitzgerald
APL
Samuel Fix
JHUAPL
Erin Flowers
Princeton
Blair Fonville
APL
Gina Fossati
APL
Rebecca Foust
APL
Matthew Fox
NASA GSFC
Larry Frank
APL
Caroline Freissinet
LATMOS
Gunner Fritsch
JHUAPL
Bill Frost
Lockheed Martin
Laurel Funk
Stanley Gantz
APL
Bob Garnett
APL/ Garnett Corp
Isaiah Garrett
APL
Matthew Gasch
NASA Ames
Owen Gaulle
APL
Andrew Gerger
APL
Carolyn Gernux
Collins
Frederic Gicquel
Schlumberger
Gaelle Giesen
CNES
Matthew Gile
APL
John Goldsten
APL
Jacob Graham
NASA GSFC
Frank Graham
JHUAPL
Chris Grau
NASA GSFC
Jonathan Green
APL
Phares Grey
APL
Matthew Grey
APL
Gabrielle Griffith
APL
Braden Grim
Visioneering Space
Andrej Grubisic
NASA GSFC
Nelson Guecha-Ahumada
NASA Langley
Todd Gustafson
APL
Brandon Haber
APL
Ryan Hacala
APL
Dan Hahn
JHU/APL
William Halaburda
NASA GSFC
Daniel Hals
JHU/APL
Matt Halstead
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Michel Hamelin
LATMOS - Sorbonne Universite
Kevin Hand
JPL
Brock Hanson
LMS
Ken Harclerode
APL
Patricia Harrington-Duff
APL
Andrew Harris
APL
Maxwell Harrow
APL
Jessica Harsono
APL
Mia Harvey
APL
Sarah Hasnain
APL
Alex Hayes
Cornell
Jane He
JHUAPL
Jonathan Heaven
Collins Aerospace
Chuck Hebert
APL
Josh Hedgepeth
The University of Western Ontario
Kevin Hegarty
NASA GSFC
Richard Heisler
JHU/APL
Chris Hersman
APL
Ken Hibbard
APL
Stuart Hill
APL
Adrian Hill
APL
Patrick Hill
APL
Barbara Hilton
NASA HQ
Nathan Hines
LLNL
A'Laura Hines
George Mason University
Michael Hoffman
APL
Mark Holdridge
APL
Allan Holtzman
APL
Sarah Horst
JHU
Alexie Hoyle
JHU APL
Olivier Humeau
LATMOS
Wendy Hunt
APL
Howard Hunter
APL
Helen Hwang
NASA Ames
Hiroshi Imanaka
SETI
Stephen Indyk
Honeybee
Sandra Irish
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Kristin Jaburek
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Prasanth Jeevan
APL
Stephen Jenkins
APL
Mark Jesick
JPL
Micah Johnson
NASA GSFC
Mark Johnson
LMS
Jeff Johnson
APL
Andrew Johnson
APL
Chris Johnston
NASA Langley
David Jones
APL
Marcellus Jones
APL
Baptiste Journaux
University of Washington
Faith Kahler
APL
Desmond Kaplan
NASA GSFC
Erich Karkoschka
Univ. of AZ
Karu Karunakaran
APL
Sarah Katz
JHU/APL
Taichi Kawamura
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris/Unversite de Paris
Cole Kazemba
NASA Ames
Calvin Kee
APL
Kristie Kelly
APL
Brian Kennedy
JPL
Thomas Kennedy
LMS
Nam Kha
SEN
Shahrose Khan
UC San Diego
Chris Kim
APL
Jinho Kim
APL
Michael Kinzel
University of Central Florida
Karen Kirby
APL
Victor Knez
APL
Lisa Knowles
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
Craig Knuth
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Andrea Kodys
APL
Joseph Kozak
APL
Sergey Krimchansky
NASA GSFC
Faith Kujawa
APL
Jonathan Labin
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Ben Lake
Brigham Young University
Jack Langelaan
Penn State Univ
Tyler Langley
JHU/APL
Chris Larson
Lockheed Martin
Sean Laughery
APL
Pujitha Lava
APL
David Lawrence
APL
Christy Layton
NASA HQ
Alice Le Gall
LATMOS
Gwen Leifer
LMS
Stephanie Lepchenske
APL
Scott Levitt
AP:
Tim Lewis
SEP
Shawn Liang
APL
Carol Lilly
NASA GSFC
Wirak Lim
JHU/APL
Dahway Lin
JHUAPL
Jojo Linden
APL
Sharon Ling
APL
Corinne Lippe
APL
john liu
JHU APL
Hui Liu
JHU/APL
Nick Lombardo
Yale
Gabriel Lopez
APL
Juan Lora
Yale
Ralph Lorenz
APL
Eric Lorfevre
CNES
Matt Love
APL
Kyle Lowery
JHU/APL
Wei Lu
NASA/GSFC/Telophase
Jacob Lustig-Yaeger
APL
Eric Lute
Lockheed Martin
Tim Lynch
APL
Eric Lyness
NASA GSFC
Gordon Maahs
APL
Shannon MacKenzie
APL
DeAngelo Maestas
APL
Lizeth Magana
APL
Milad Mahzari
NASA Ames
Darby Makel
Makel Engineering Inc.
Charles Malespin
NASA GSFC
Perry Malouf
APL
Greg Manning
JHU/APL SES SMA
Eric Mansbach
NASA GSFC
Chris Manspeaker
LMS
Katie Marcotte
JHU/APL
Richard Margulieux
Honeybee
Lindsey Marinello
JHU/APL
Sean Martin
APL
Emily Martin
Smithsonian Institution
Angela Marusiak
USGS
Jordan Mastera
APL
Jacob Mayo
APL
Patrick McCauley
JHU/APL
Samuel McDonald
sem-001
Timothy McGee
Point Mass Technologies
Chris McKay
NASA Ames
Quincy McKown
NASA Ames
Maria McQuaide
APL
Lauren Mehr
APL
Nishant Mehta
APL
Rich Meitzler
APL
Eric Melin
APL
Joanna Mellert
APL
Eric Menyhart
JHUAPL
Alan Mick
APL
Scott Miller
APL
Niko Minasola
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Gillian Minnehan
APL
Annette Mirantes
APL
Ryan Mitch
APL
Helen Mitch
JHUAPL
James Mize
APL
Adam Mizes
APL
Marco Moncayo
LMS
James Mooney
APL
Matthew Morris
Danielle Mortensen
JHU/APL
Valentin Moulay
LATMOS
Brian Mulac
NASA/PMPO
Luis Munoz
APL
Scott Murchie
APL
Hari Nair
APL
David Napolillo
APL
Julie Napp
APL
Chris Naughton
NASA Ames
Karla Negrete
UMBC
Catherine Neish
PSI
Ken Nelson
APL
Tyler Nelson
APL
Anel Neri-Saenz
APL
Jonny Neville
APL
Claire Newman
Aeolis Research
Ryan Newport
APL
Lillian Nguyen
APL
Napoleon Nguyen-Tuong
LESIA
John Nichols
APL
Richard Nichols
APL
Durga Niroula
Lockheed Martin
Tom Nolan
NASA GSFC
Steven Novack
APL
Jorge Nunez
APL
Jenna Nuth
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Brett O'Connor
APL
Matthew O'Neil
NASA
Michael O'Neill
APL
Jacob Oarethu
APL
Emily Olds
Lockheed Martin
Campbell Ong
APL
Allison Orr
APL
Katie Ortel
APL
Robert Osiander
APL
Brian Ottens
NASA GSFC
Geff Ottman
APL
Jose Palacios
Penn State Univ
Mark Panning
JPL
Carey Parish
LMS
Charles Parker
James Parkus
APL
Ann Parsons
NASA GSFC
Bernadine Passe
APL
Gale Paulsen
Honeybee
James Paulson
APL
Alejandro Pensado
AMA-Inc (Langley)
Patrick Peplowski
APL
Roberto Perez
Collins Aerospace
Darrius Pergosky
APL
Reid Perkins
The University of Western Ontario
Isaac Perreault
APL
Todd Perrine
Honeybee Robotics
Gino Perrotta
JHU/APL
Jackie Perry
APL
Elizabeth Perry
LMS
Radford Perry
NASA GSFC
Ryan Peterson
APL
Daniel Peterson
APL
Timothy Petry
NASA GSFC
Kristina Pevear
NASA GSFC/ASRC Federal
Woody Peyton
LMS
Stephen Pfeiffer
JHU/APL
Chi Pham
APL
David Piryk
NASA KSC
Owen Pochettino
APL
Valerio Poggiali
Cornell University
Deva Ponnusamy
APL
Gabriel Pont
CNES
Alexandra Pontefract
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Christa Porter
APL
Jamie Porter
APL
Stephen Price
JHU APL
Lynnae Quick
NASA GSFC
Sussan Rad
APL
Jani Radebaugh
BYU
Scot Rafkin
SwRI
Kristin Ramachandran
APL
Juan Ramirez
APL
Michael Ravine
Malin Space Science Systems
Dave Reed
APL
Alysen Regiec
JHUAPL
Edward Reynolds
APL
Lucas Rich
Idaho National Lab
Mark Richardson
APL
Josh Richman
JHUAPL
John Ricks
LMS
Gwendolyn Robbins
JHU APL
James Roberts
APL
David Robinson
NASA GSFC
Rolando Rodarte
APL
Lev Rodovskiy
APL
Luis Rodriguez
JHUAPL
Matthew Rodriguez
APL
Elizabeth Rollend
JHUAPL
Felder Ronald
APL
Paul Rosendall
APL
Anna Sage Ross Browning
University of Idaho
Duane Roth
JPL
Lew Roufberg
APL
Srabanti Roy
APL
Martin Rubenis
LMCO
Felipe Ruiz
APL
Kim Runkles
APL
Bryan Rupert
JHU APL
Kyle Ryan
APL
Mike Salvaterra
LMS
John Samsock
APL
Delia Santiago-Materese
NASA HQ
Samalis Santini De Leon
APL
Janine Santmyer
APL
Kayli Sarpu
LMS
David Saunders
NASA Ames/AMA, Inc
Thaddeus Savery
APL
Carolyn Sawyer
APL
Keaton Scheffler
LMS
Benjamin Schilling
APL
Randy Schlotterbeck
APL
James Schmidt
APL
Sven Schmitz
Penn State Univ
Una Schneck
MIT
David Scholz
LMS
Chris Scott
APL
Kim Seelos
APL
Nick Seese
JHUAPL
Lisa Segal
APL
Cassandra Seltzer
MIT
Daniel Senai
NASA
Becca Sepan
APL
Yanan Sha
APL
James Shackford
APL
Jahnavi Shah
The University of Western Ontario
Amit Shah
APL
Matthew Shannon
APL
Derek Shannon
LMS
Brett Shapiro
APL
Evan Shea
APL
Caitlin Shearer
APL
Colin Sheldon
NASA GSFC
Hiroaki Shiraishi
JAXA
Chris Siak
APL
Deane Sibol
APL
James Sidone
SOM
Ron Smith
APL
Ed Smith
Penn State Univ
Raymond Smith
APL
Drew Smith
APL
Kurt Smithgall
APL
Jason Soderblom
MIT
Rod Solaz
Research and Exploratory Development Department
Jarvis Songer
LMS
Kristin Sotzen
APL
Adrian Southard
USRA
Fabien Stalport
LISA
Josh Steele
APL
David Steinfeld
NASA GSFC
Eric Stern
NASA Ames
Jen Stern
NASA GSFC
Joe Stevens
NASA GSFC
Sarah Stevens
SES/SAC
Angela Stickle
APL
Jason Stipes
APL
Ellen Stofan
Smithsonian
Jake Strang
APL
Gina Stratchko
NASA
Lindsay Stroyen
NASA GSFC
Paul Stysley
NASA GSFC
Will Suero Amparo
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Erin Sutton
JHU APL
Greg Swanson
NASA Ames
Cyril Szopa
LATMOS
Edmund Taddey
Raytheon
Dina Tady
JHU/APL
Howard Taylor
APL
Samuel Teinturier
NASA GSFC
Sagar Thapa
Collins Aerospace
Steve Thibault
APL
Benjamin Thistle
SEM
Justin Thomas
APL
Lisa Thomas
Honeybee
Staci Tiedeken
NASA GSFC
Ryan Tillman
APL
Tetsuya Tokano
Univ. of Cologne
Hala Tomey
APL
Jessica Tozer
APL
Melissa Trainer
NASA GSFC
Minh Quan Tran
APL
Rebecca Travers
Lockheed Martin
Teresa Tropf
APL
Scott Turner
APL
Zibi Turtle
APL
Norm Tuttle
APL
Annette Uy
APL
Donovan van der Gracht
APL
Dylan Van Dyne
Honeybee Robotics
John Van Norman
NASA Langley
Lee Varanyak
APL
Robin Vaughan
APL
Alyssa Vellucci
UT Dallas
Steve Vernon
APL
Benjamin Villac
APL
Sandrine Vinatier
LESIA
Amanda Voegtlin
APL
Kirk Volland
APL
Surendra Vyas
APL
Tom Wagner
NASA HQ
Shigeru Wakita
MIT
Kristen Washington
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Ryan Watson
APL
Kenneth Watson
JHUAPL
Matt Watts
APL
Rick Webbert
APL
Kyle Weber
APL
Weyman Weems
LMS
Don Wegel
NASA GSFC
Jarrett Wehle
APL
David Weir
JHUAPL
Bill Welsh
LMS
Kimberly Westbrook
APL
Chad Whiteley
JHU/APL
Ian Whiting
APL
Karl Whittenburg
APL
Jimmy Williams
AMA, Inc
Zorah Williams
JHU/APL
Jack Wilson
APL
John Wilson
APL
Colin Wilson
Oxford
Richard Winski
AMA, Inc
Isaac Witte
APL
Mau Wong
JPL
Kristin Wortman
APL
Lucas Wray
APL
Michael Wright
NASA Ames
Brianna Wylie
Florida A&M
Maya Yanez
University of Southern California
Bernice Yen
Honeybee
Karen Yetter
JPL
Jie Yin
APL
R Aileen Yingst
PSI
Zach Yokley
APL
Daniel Young
APL
John Youssef
APL
Kris Zacny
Honeybee
Darryl Zawada
APL
Daniel Zettler
LMS
Steven Zhan
APL
Su Zhang
APL
Loren Zumwalt
LMS
