QUESTION: Who designed the Mars Global Surveyor, and where? ANSWER from Charles Whetsel on November 30, 1997: Mars Global Surveyor was desgined by a team of engineers and scientists. Most of the science instruments and mission objectives were inherited from the Mars Observer mission, which was terminated prematurely when contact with the spacecraft was lost in 1993. The Mars Global Surveyor was built by Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver, Colorado, with the scientific instruments provided by several different scientific institutions. The project is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory which is a division of the California Institute of Technology. Charles Whetsel