Biography:Steve Collins (engineer)
Steve Collins is an American physicist and engineer best known for his role in NASA Mars exploration program.
Education and early-life
Collins earned degrees in physics and theater arts from the University of California Santa Cruz[1] He is the son of Emmy winning cinematographer Bob Collins best known for his work on Superman and Miami Vice.[citation needed]
Career
Collins worked in the motion picture industry for a few years after graduation before being hired by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has worked on the Psyche,[2] Deep Impact[3] and Deep Space One missions on attitude, guidance and control. He worked as team lead on the Mars Exploration Program.[4] Collins served as senior guidance and control engineer on the Mars Science Laboratory mission.[5] Collins long hair along with Bobak Ferdowsi's mohawk, also drew attention as a new face of NASA.[5]
Outside of NASA, Collins acts in community theater including a part in a musical Star Trek parody presented by the Caltech theater arts department.[6] He also plays for JPL's employee soccer team, The Cosmics, and races autocross.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Townsend, Peggy. "Alumni Profile / Steve Collins: A 'real' rocket man" (in en). https://news.ucsc.edu/2012/10/rev-fall-12-alumni-collins.html.
- ↑ Hart, William; Brown, G. Mark; Collins, Steven M.; De Soria-Santacruz Pich, Maria; Fieseler, Paul; Goebel, Dan; Marsh, Danielle; Oh, David Y. et al. (March 2018). "Overview of the spacecraft design for the Psyche mission concept". 2018 IEEE Aerospace Conference. pp. 1–20. doi:10.1109/AERO.2018.8396444. ISBN 978-1-5386-2014-4. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8396444/;jsessionid=_EfKBU6mADDygtFUN6OhcN3zX-YnQEflQsBKvzUinELKgywvsgrW!-387185283.
- ↑ "Deep Impact: Mission: Biographies: Steve Collins". http://deepimpact.umd.edu/mission/bios/bio-scollins.html.
- ↑ "Steve Collins | C-SPAN.org". https://www.c-span.org/person/?stevecollins.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Kolawole, Emi (August 10, 2012). "NASA Curiosity crew members are hanging out with us today". Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/nasa-curiosity-crew-members-are-hanging-out-with-us-today-230-pm-et/2012/08/10/c2faf4e2-e2f4-11e1-98e7-89d659f9c106_blog.html.
- ↑ "Caltech, JPL join forces for 'Star Trek' musical parody" (in en-US). 2016-03-28. https://www.latimes.com/socal/la-canada-valley-sun/tn-vsl-me-valleyliine-20160323-story.html.
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