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Peter C. Theisinger
Director, Engineering and Science Directorate
Peter C. Theisinger is director of the Engineering and Science Directorate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Previously at JPL he served as deputy director of the Mars Exploration Directorate, manager of the Mars Science Laboratory project, manager of the Mars Exploration Rover project, deputy manager of the Mars Sample Return project, deputy manager of the Systems Division, mission support and development manager of the Mars Surveyor Operations project, project engineer for the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft development project, and manager of the Spacecraft Systems Engineering Section.
Theisinger has been with JPL since 1967, except for 1980-1983 when he worked in the private sector. He joined JPL in 1967 as an engineer in the Payload Integration Section, and worked on a variety of missions, including the 1967 Mariner mission to Venus, the 1971 Mariner orbiter mission to Mars, the 1977 Voyager mission to the outer planets and the 1989 Galileo mission to Jupiter.
He earned his bachelor's degree in physics in 1967 from the California Institute of Technology, and has completed several management programs, including the UCLA Engineering and Management Program, the NASA Management Education Program and the NASA Advanced Project Management Program.
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