Marc Rayman

Marc Rayman (MPhys; PhD’85) is the chief engineer and mission director at NASA for an exploration of the two largest uncharted worlds in the inner solar system. Following his nuclear physics research at CU, Marc worked for JILA on experimental tests of special relativity and atomic and laser physics. In 1986 he joined the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and worked on optical interferometry missions to detect planets around stars and designed a mission to return samples from Mars. Asteroid Rayman was named in recognition of Marc’s contributions to space exploration.