NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Dr. Donald Brownlee, Principal Investigator

Dr. Brownlee's research interests include investigations of interplanetary dust, comets, meteorites and the origin of the solar system. He also conducted research as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago. Asteroid 3259 Brownlee was named for him in 1991.
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Tom Duxbury, Project Manager

Mr. Duxbury has actively participated with a wide variety of space missions, including: the Science Imaging Teams of Mariners 6, 7, 9, and 10, Viking Orbiters 1 and 2, Viking Lander 1, Pioneers 10 and 11, Voyagers 1 and 2, the Soviet PHOBOS Mission (PHOBOS 88), Mars Observer, Mars Global Surveyor, the Dod/NASA Clementine Mission and the Russian Mars 96 Mission (Mars 96).
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Joe Vellinga, Program Manager

Joe Vellinga has been the Lockheed Martin Program Manager for Stardust since the proposal in 1994. Since launch Stardust has been a part time activity with Mission Success for all the LM Space Exploration Systems spacecraft engaging most of his time. Prior to Stardust he delivered the Faint Object Spectrograph to the Hubble Space Telescope and preformed studies of weather satellite instruments and earth observing imaging spectrometers.
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Allan Cheuvront, Spacecraft Engineer

Allan Cheuvront has been an employee of Lockheed Martin since 1980 and involved in three deep space missions since 1988. Currently he is the Stardust Spacecraft Engineer and is responsible for implementing the Stardust mission. He was a member of the Magellan Flight Team that successfully mapped the surface of Venus.
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Dr. Peter Tsou, Deputy Principal Investigator

Dr. Peter Tsou is a principal science staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology, where he has worked for the past 27 years. His research interests for the past two decades have concentrated on achieving a sample return of cometary coma material.
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