Long-Lived Mars Odyssey Gets New Project Manager

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 18, 2010 ![][1] The new project manager for the longest-working spacecraft currently active at Mars, NASA’s Mars Odyssey, has a long track record himself. He is Gaylon McSmith, a former pilot of U.S. Air Force fighter jets and Continental Airlines airliners. At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., he has been a leader on the Odyssey team since two months after the spacecraft began orbiting

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