About the team
Led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, the Dragonfly team comprises leading Titan scientists and space system engineers as well as rotorcraft experts who have deep experience on missions to Saturn, Titan, the Sun, Pluto, and beyond.
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
Spacecraft Systems Engineer
Johns Hopkins APL
Science and Engineering Team
Aaron Brandis
AMA Inc.
Will Brinckerhoff
NASA GSFC
David Buecher
Lockheed Martin Space
Morgan Cable
JPL
Jim Corliss
NASA Langley
Juan Cruz
NASA Langley
Carolyn Ernst
Johns Hopkins APL
Caroline Freissinet
LATMOS
Kevin Hand
JPL
Alex Hayes
Cornell
Sarah Horst
JHU
Helen Hwang
NASA Ames
Hiroshi Imanaka
SETI Institute
Jeff Johnson
Johns Hopkins APL
Erich Karkoschka
University Arizona
Jack Langelaan
PSU
David Lawrence
Johns Hopkins APL
Alice LeGall
LATMOS
Juan Lora
Yale University
Shannon MacKenzie
Johns Hopkins APL
Milad Mahzari
NASA Ames
Andy Mastandrea
Johns Hopkins APL
Chris McKay
NASA Ames
Nishant Mehta
Johns Hopkins APL
Annette Mirantes
Johns Hopkins APL
Rich Miller
Johns Hopkins APL
Catherine Neish
PSI/University West Ontario
Claire Newman
Aeolis Research
Jorge Nunez
Johns Hopkins APL
Marty Ozimek
Johns Hopkins APL
Jose Palacios
PSU
Mark Panning
JPL
Ann Parsons
NASA GSFC
Patrick Peplowski
Johns Hopkins APL
Lynnae Quick
NASA GSFC
Jani Radebaugh
BYU
Scot Rafkin
SwRI
Mike Ravine
MSSS
Fredrik Rehnmark
Honeybee Robotics
Lev Rodovskiy
Johns Hopkins APL
Duane Roth
JPL
Carolyn Sawyer
Johns Hopkins APL
Sven Schmitz
PSU
Chris Scott
Johns Hopkins APL
Kim Seelos
Johns Hopkins APL
Becca Sepan
Johns Hopkins APL
Hiroaki Shiraishi
JAXA
Jason Soderblom
MIT
Kristin Sotzen
Johns Hopkins APL
Angela Stickle
Johns Hopkins APL
Ellen Stofan
Smithsonian
Cyril Szopa
LATMOS
Neil Tice
Lockheed Martin Space
Tetsuya Tokano
University of Koln
Benjamin Villac
Johns Hopkins APL
Don Wegel
NASA GSFC
Colin Wilson
Oxford
Richard Winski
NASA Langley
Michael Wright
NASA Ames
Bernice Yen
Honeybee Robotics
Aileen Yingst
PSI
Kris Zacny
Honeybee Robotics
