🚨The Count Is Now 10 Here Are The Names, The Dates, and the Pattern of Missing Scientists and Contractors At this point, the only way to understand what's happening with this situation is to stop speaking in generalities and actually put the cases side by side. Lets start with the earliest in this chain. Michael David Hicks. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Research scientist with more than two decades inside the system, directly involved in missions like Deep Space 1 and DART. He dies July 3...