Tom Hoffman
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA
Biography
Tom Hoffman is the project manager of the InSight mission which successfully landed on Mars in November 2018. Tom has been the Project Manager since the proposal phase of InSight in 2011. Prior to his role on InSight, Tom was the Deputy Project Manager for the GRAIL mission, a Discovery mission which gravity mapped the moon. Over the past 30+ years at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Tom has worked on several other NASA flight projects including Voyager Operations, Cassini, Stardust, Spirit/Opportunity Mars rovers and several Earth scatterometers, as well as a several technology development efforts.
Abstract
Abstract : InSight: Revealing the Interior of Mars