Lydon Kersting: Dragon Ground Operations Launch Engineer in Cape Canaveral, FL

-Designing device for space suit leak and communications checks prior to flight -Primary loader of breathing air and life support fluids onto spacecraft -Designing panels for spacecraft propellant decontamination post-flight -Load hypergol propellant onto spacecraft -Ownership and maintenance of pneumatics, purge, breathing air, chilled water systems in spacecraft processing facility

• Adapted Dragon 2 spacecraft conditioning purge for processing facility • Designed and analyzed Dragon 2 crew and cargo loading doorstep • Developed decontamination vacuum oven heating system, negotiated $160,000 trade • Designed, analyzed, and tested Draco engine plug mechanism