Kevin Engelbert


Mr. Engelbert serves as the Manager of NASA’s In Space Production Applications (InSPA) Portfolio, responsible for development and implementation of the Agency strategy to enable sustainable and scalable commercial manufacturing in space for Earth.  Through InSPA awards, NASA funds U.S. businesses and institutions seeking to develop and demonstrate the production of advanced materials and products, including biotechnology applications, on the International Space Station (ISS) National Lab to serve markets on Earth.  Mr. Engelbert was instrumental in the development and release of NASA’s 2019 Strategy for Development of a Commercial low-Earth orbit (LEO) Economy. Mr. Engelbert earned a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1989 and a Master of Science in Finance from the University of Houston at Clear Lake in 2000. 


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University of Central Florida – Florida Space Institute

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