Mr. Andrews has 32+ years of PM experience overseeing the design, development, and operations of NASA funded space science payloads and missions. He has extensive experience successfully managing partnerships with U.S. aerospace corporations, universities, NASA centers, foreign participation and numerous industrial providers. His PM experiences include substantive roles on multiple deep-space mission hardware/software development & operations projects including Lucy, New Horizons, and Curiosity (MSL). He was the Step 1 and Phase A Project Manager for Lucy leading to its final selection by NASA and in Phases B/C/D served as the mission’s Deputy Project Manager for Science Payload & Science Operations managing some $140M of development scope. He also manages the Lucy PI Team contract, another $170M of scope. He joined the New Horizons team in Phase B and has served as: the Science Operations Center PM, the Ralph Deputy PM during the instrument’s development (managing Ball, now BAES), and the overall SwRI PM for both the 2007 Jupiter encounter and for the Pluto/Charon and MU69 encounters (2013 to 2020). He has worked with and managed efforts at BAES on both New Horizons and HST/COS. He has held major management roles in the development of EUV/FUV science instrumentation on the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) mission and the development of the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph for the Hubble Space Telescope (again working with BAES).
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john.andrews@swri.org
John Andrews
Executive Director
Solar System Science & Exploration Division
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Mr. Andrews has an extensive background in managing instrumentation, spacecraft systems, and missions for space science investigations. He has held management positions on many projects including Lucy, New Horizons, RAD for ISS, RAD for MSL/Curiosity, COS for HST, and the FUSE Explorer mission. His professional interests and activities include: project management; space mission analysis and design; systems engineering; optomechanical engineering; precision mechanisms; and the assembly and test of space flight instrumentation. He has been a technical line manager in various institutions since 1992. He holds numerous NASA Group Achievement awards and is a co-recipient of the 2017 SPIE George W. Goddard award for exceptional achievement in optical instrumentation for space applications and he is a recipient of the NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal for his work on Lucy.
