Pete Theisinger

Peter C. Theisinger was project manager of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission.

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NASA's - Mars Exploration Rover Mission

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Originally from Fresno, California, Theisinger graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 1967 with a bachelors degree in physics. He joined NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as payload integration engineer that year and except for a three-year span in the early 1980s has worked at JPL since. Among the missions on which he has participated were the 1967 Mariner 5 flyby mission to Venus, the 1971 Mariner 9 orbiter mission to Mars, the Voyager mission to the outer planets of the solar system, the Galileo mission to Jupiter, and the Mars Global Surveyor orbiter.

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Fresno, California - California Institute of Technology - 1967 - Physics - Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Mariner 5 - Venus - 1971 - Mariner 9 - Mars - Voyager - Solar system - Galileo - Mars Global Surveyor

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Theisinger is currently project manager for the 2009 Mars Science Laboratory mission.

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2009 - Mars Science Laboratory

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