Frank Teti (b. 1966) is the Program Manager for the development of the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter. Prior to this, he was the Manager of Autonomous Robotics at MDA and focused on commercial and civilian missions for lunar exploration/exploitation and orbital debris removal.
Orbit type: Main Belt
Ref: MPC 102257

Timothy Haltigin (b. 1976) is the Senior Mission Scientist in Planetary Exploration at the Canadian Space Agency. He is actively involved in the preparatory stages for a variety of planetary sample return missions, and currently is the Mission Manager for the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter.
Orbit type: Main Belt
Ref: MPC 102257

Rene-Pier Marius-Phaneuf (b. 1971) is a Senior Project Manager at the Canadian Space Agency. He is responsible for the delivery of the OLA instrument to the OSIRIS-REx Mission. He has been involved in the Canadian contributions to Herschel (HIFI), the Mars Science Laboratory (APXS) and JWST (FGS-NIRISS).
Orbit type: Main Belt

Ref: MPC 102257

Claude Brunet (b. 1956) is Flight Software manager at the Canadian Space Agency. He oversaw the development of the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter instrument, of the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer currently on MSL (member of the MSL Operation team), and of the Phoenix Meteorological Station instrument.
Orbit type: Main Belt

Ref: MPC 102257

Luminita Ilinca Ignat (b. 1968) is the Canadian Space Agency’s Deputy Project Manager for the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter. Prior to serving in this role, she was the CSA Deputy Project Manager for the James Webb Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor/Near InfraRed Imager and Slitless Spectrograph.
Orbit type: Main Belt
Ref: MPC 102257

Grant Cunningham (b. 1959) specialized in lidar from Graduate School at York University through 25 years of involvement at Optech Incorporated where he is a Senior Scientist with a speciality in sensor calibration. He is the Optech technical lead for the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter.
Orbit type: Main Belt
Ref: MPC 102257

James Somerville Edgar (b. 1946) spent 40 years as a Locomotive Engineer and rail Supervisor. He became President of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada in 2014 and is presently the Editor of the RASC Observer's Handbook.
Orbit type: Main Belt
Ref: MPC 102253/4

In 1941, Andrew McKellar (1910–1960) measured the temperature of interstellar space as about 2.7 Kelvin, based of the rotational spectrum of the cyanogen molecule. This radiation temperature arises from the cosmic primeval fireball and is one of the most fundamental and revealing cosmic parameters.

Ref: MPC 69491

Orbit type: Main Belt 

Alfred Elton Van Vogt (1912–2000) was a Canadian-born science-fiction writer. The discoverer’s favorite stories are the three novels based on General Semantics: The World of Null-A, The Pawns of Null-A and The Null-A Three, together with The Voyage of The Space Beagle, published in 1950.

Ref: MPC 69496

Orbit type: Main Belt