LADEE Team

Sarah Noble, program scientist, NASA Headquarters, Washington

Richard Elphic, project scientist, NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California

Greg Delory, deputy project scientist, NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California

Ultra Violet and Visible Light Spectrometer
Anthony Colaprete, principal investigator NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 

Other members of the UVS science team, include Diane Wooden and John Karcz at Ames.

Neutral Mass Spectrometer
Paul Mahaffy, principal investigator, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland

Other members of the NMS science team, include Mehdi Benna at Goddard, and Richard Hodges at the University of Colorado.

Lunar Dust Experiment
Mihaly Horanyi, principal investigator, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), University of Colorado at Boulder.

Other members of the LDEX science team, include Zoltan Sternovsky at LASP CU Boulder,
Eberhard Gruen at the University of Colorado/Max Planck Institut fur Kernphysik, and
Ralf Srama at the University of Stuttgart.

Jasper Halekas, University of California, Berkeley "Quantifying the links between the space plasma environment and the lunar dusty atmosphere: A virtual plasma instrument for LADEE"

Dana Hurley, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland. "Exospheric modeling for interpretation of LADEE data" 

Sascha Kempf, University of Colorado, "Investigating Dust Exospheres by LADEE"

Menelaos Sarantos, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, “A toolbox of exospheric models and visualization methods for LADEE data acquisition and interpretation"

Tim Stubbs, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, "Exploring the Lunar Exospheric Dust Environment with LADEE"

NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, was responsible for managing the LADEE mission, building the spacecraft and performing mission operations for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The LADEE mission was part of the Lunar Quest Program managed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland., was responsible for managing the science instruments and technology demonstration payload, and the science operations center. NASA Wallops Flight Facility was responsible for launch vehicle integration, launch services, and launch range operations.

At NASA Headquarters, John Grunsfeld was associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate.

James Green was director of the Planetary Division.

Joan Salute was LADEE program executive, and Sarah Noble was the program scientist.

At Ames, Butler Hine was LADEE project manager. Dawn McIntosh was the deputy project manager.

At Marshall, Danny Harris was the Lunar Quest program manager.

At Goddard, Robert Caffrey was the LADEE payloads manager.

At Wallops, Doug Voss was launch manager. Bruce Underwood was deputy launch manager.

Orbital Sciences Corp., was responsible for the Minotaur V rocket that will carry LADEE into space.