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Peter Theisinger, ‘titan of Mars program’ at JPL, dies at 78
Peter Theisinger raised the IQ of any room he entered. The man considered a giant at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who worked on missions to six planets and landed three NASA rovers on Mars, has died after a long illness. He was 78. “The things we do …