A NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory employee from the Santa Clarita Valley has been appointed to a key position on the lab’s executive council.
Richard Cook has been named Associate Director for Flight Projects and Mission Success.
Cook had served as JPL’s Deputy Director for Solar System Exploration since 2013. Before that, he held several leadership positions at JPL in the Mars Exploration Program, including manager and deputy manager for the Mars Science Laboratory Project during development and operations.
In those roles, he was responsible for design, development, launch and operations of the Curiosity rover, which successfully landed on Mars in August 2012 and continues beaming back images and data.
Before that, he held positions on the Mars Exploration Rover Project (the Spirit and Opportunity rovers), Mars Surveyor Operations Project (including Mars Global Surveyor and Mars 98), and the Mars Pathfinder mission. A full bio of Cook is online [here].
Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages JPL for NASA.
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