NEW HORIZONS Program/Project Management Dr. Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder Colo., leads the New Horizons mission as principal investigator. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Laurel, Md., manages the New Horizons mission for the Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington. At NASA Headquarters, Dr. Mary Cleave is the associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate and Dr. Colleen Hartman is deputy associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate. Mr. Andrew Dantzler is the director of the Solar System Exploration Division. Mr. Kurt Lindstrom is the New Horizons program executive and Dr. Denis Bogan is the New Horizons program scientist. Mr. Todd May is the New Frontiers Program manager and Mr. Allen Bacskay is New Horizons mission manager at Marshall Space Flight Center, Ala. At APL, Mr. Glen Fountain is the New Horizons project manager and Dr. Harold Weaver is New Horizons project scientist. Dr. Robert Farquhar is mission manager, Ms. Alice Bowman is mission operations manager, Mr. David Kusnierkiewicz is mission systems engineer and Ms. Kerri Beisser is education and public outreach manager. Dr. Larry Crawford is the head of the APL Space Department and Dr. Richard Roca is the director of the Applied Physics Laboratory. At SwRI in Boulder, Dr. Leslie Young is the New Horizons deputy project scientist. At SwRI in San Antonio, Texas, Mr. William Gibson is New Horizons payload manager. Dr. James Burch is vice president of the Space Science and Engineering Division and Mr. J. Dan Bates is the president of the Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio. The New Horizons science team includes co-investigators from: Southwest Research Institute; Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., University of Colorado, Boulder; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.; NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.; Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz.; Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.; Washington University, St. Louis; Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.; Ball Aerospace, Boulder, Colo.; and George Mason University, Fairfax, Va. NASA’s First Mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt 37
