CosmoCam is being developed by Rocket Science, Inc. in collaboration with NASA Goddard's Exploration of the Universe Division (Greenbelt, Maryland) and personnel from the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (Palestine, Texas).

The CosmoCam Core Team consists of four engineers with many years of experience designing and building scientific instruments for NASA missions ranging from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft to global scientific balloon flights.

The core team members are:

Norman Dobson- Electronic Technician and Software Designer with NASA Goddard's Exploration of the Universe Division.

Norman has been working at NASA Goddard for the past 22 years. He has helped develop electronics and system software for a number of missions as well as laboratory prototypes. Norman has been the "go to" guy in preparing CosmoCam's flight and ground software as well as the control electronics. I call him "Q".

Dave Sheppard- Electrical Engineer with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Dave has worked with the NASA Goddard Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics since 1988.  He has been involved in the design and test of satellite-based electronics for x-ray and gamma-ray astrophysics instrumentation.  His primary interests include the design and development of analog and digital electronics for photon and particle detectors, specifically in the area of custom mask mixed-signal integrated circuits.

Bryan Stilwell- Group Lead and Communications Engineer with the National Scientific Balloon Facility

Bryan is the CosmoCam communications engineer and has been working to develop the communication system that will allow CosmoCam to bring down the video imagery for all to see. He has over 18 years of electronic design, system design, and technical leadership primarily with the Physical Science Laboratory/National Scientific Balloon Facility. Over the last 14 years, Mr. Stilwell has been involved with NASA’s scientific ballooning program. He was one of the principal systems engineers during the development of various computer systems, power systems, and satellite communications for the Long Duration Balloon project. These systems fly in a near vacuum environment on high-altitude helium balloons for durations of up to 30 days. Missions are flown from around the world.

Scott Murphy- Mechanical Design Engineer and President of Rocket Science, Inc.

Scott is the CosmoCam project manager and mechanical engineer. He has lead the mechanical design and development efforts of a number projects for NASA Goddard’s Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics as well as the Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics for the past 15 years as an onsite contractor. He has helped develop the detector instruments for the Mars Odyssey’s Gamma Ray Spectrometer (currently at Mars), Astro-E’s X-Ray Spectrometer, and Altus Cloud Electrification Study as well as designing the entire structure for Nightglow ULDB (an around the world balloon flight of UV telescopes). Scott has served on a number of deployment and flight campaigns over the last several years. He founded and has been running Rocket Science since 1993.