As NASA Civil Servant I work on various type of project from large programs like Human Lander System and Nuclear Thermal Propulsion to small projects such as Lunar Flashlight.
- Set up and documented review and loading procedure for the propellant carts for Lunar Flashlight propellant system.
- Designed fixturing for a commercially available valve testing for the NASA Green Propellant Dual Mode AF-315E propellant demonstration mission.
- Provided support in setup of a vacuum chamber facility to run a long duration test of MIT Electrospray Thrusters at MSFC.
- Conducted the testing of Hall thruster on the VAHPER thrust stand.
- Supervised and aided in the repair and maintenance of the VAHPER thrust stand.
- Preformed calibrations required for testing the VAHPER thrust stand.
- Was part of the Cryogenic Fluid Management Insite team for NASA Human Landing System (HLS) program preforming such duties as verification and validation testing against the specifications and requirements.
- Represented the Cryogenic Fluid Management and Propulsion Team for the internal NASA integration team for Human Landing System Program.
- Identified watch items and offered technical suggestions in fluids, power, avionics, and instrumentation in Cryogenic
- Fluid Management and Cryogenic Propellant Feed Systems for Human Landing System for Artimis and Moon to Mars Program.
- Created a COMSOL model to predicted the stress stain in test sample simulating due to thermal cycling of weld sample of Mars environment Test of the vacuum shell.
- Supervised the buildup of the test rig designed to transfer cryogenic fluids to dip test samples and heat up wish bone samples of different welds that to used in the vacuum shell for oxygen liquefaction on Mars.
- Maintained and operated various vacuum systems to perform boil off and small chemical and electric thruster testing.
- Created high level and detailed designs for Vacuum systems and pressure systems components including high voltage
- vacuum feed throughs required for testing of an arc jet running on AF-315E and DC pre-heater for Nuclear Thermal Rocket Elements Environmental Simulator (NTREES) test articles.
- Determined specifications and requirements for the high-power DC system for NTREES upgrade and Cryogenic tank used in the NASA Two Stage Cooling Demonstration.
- Created test procedures and safety assessment for various Green Propellant and Cryogenic testing.
- Operated console for various Cryogenic and thruster testing and determined when testing had concluded.
- Resolved programing and hardware problems in LabVIEW Realtime OS, LabVIEW Window Applications, NI-PXI Systems, and instrumentation.
- Researched pulsed power and green propellant based electrical and chemical detonation thrusters for use in space propulsion systems.