Larry Crumpler

Larry s. Crumpler, PhD, is a member of NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover mission team. He is also the research curator of Volcanology and Space Science at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. As the long-term plannin lead for the Mars Exploration Rover Project, Dr. Crumpler helped control the daily telecoms that defined the ongoing activities of the rovers on Mars, leading fifteen years of discovery on the Red Planet with the Opportunity and Spirit rovers. One part of Mars—“Larry’s Lookout”—was even informally named after Larry as a testament to his contributions to the missions.