The Lucy Team

NASA’s Lucy mission is led by Hal Levison, the principal investigator, and Simone Marchi, deputy principal investigator, both at the Boulder, Colorado, branch of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.

Rich Burns (Goddard), Arlin Bartels (Goddard), John Andrews (SwRI), and Vince Elliott (Goddard) are the project manager and deputy project managers, respectively.

Lucy Team

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Hal Levison

Principal Investigator, Southwest Research Institute

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Simone Marchi

Deputy Principal Investigator (SwRI)

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Rich Burns

Project Manager

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Arlin Bartels

Deputy Project Manager, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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John Andrews

Deputy Project Manager, Southwest Research Institute

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Vince Elliot

Deputy Project Manager, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, provides overall mission management, systems engineering, and safety and mission assurance. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver, Colorado built and will operate the spacecraft for NASA. KinetX in Simi Valley, California, will provide mission navigation. Launch operations will be conducted by NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

As a Discovery class mission, the Planetary Missions Program Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, provides program management. Lucy is part of the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Planetary Science Division at Washington DC, which has the overall responsibility for the Discovery Program, and its missions. Lucy is the thirteenth standalone mission in the Discovery Program.