Materials ISS Experiment Flight Facility for material testing and technology validation

Johnnie Engelhardt

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Johnnie Engelhardt has multiple job responsibilities at Alpha Space Test and Research Alliance, LLC (Alpha Space).   His primary duty is to develop the MISSE Flight Facility and related hardware. His secondary duty is to integrated the MISSE Flight Facility to the International Space Station.   His other duties include experiment hardware design and development; experiment assessments and future systems development.  Mr. Engelhardt has a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington, Class of 1989.   Mr. Engelhardt has been designing spaceflight hardware since 1990, with extensive knowledge and development inhuman spaceflight at NASA.    For seven years, 1990 to 1997, he developed and integrated hardware for human experiments on the Space Shuttle and the Mir Space Station for the JSC Life Sciences Directorate.   The next two years were spent integrating and developing risk mitigation experiments for flight on the Mir Space Station for the ISS Program. Between 1998 and 2012, Mr. Engelhardt was a contractor to the US Air Force, integrating and supporting the design of payloads for the Space Test Program – Houston.   Between 2007 and2013, he was also the AM Biotechnologies, LLC Chief Engineer.   In 2013, NASA decided to release an RFP for the MISSE Flight Facility development, and Mr. Engelhardt was instrumental in the Flight Facility concept design and development for the proposal, which was finally awarded to Alpha Space.  His understanding of instrument design and development has provided a state of the art MISSE facility that will service the community until the end of the life of the ISS.    Mr. Engelhardt is lead inventor on two patents, and has been involved in 6 patent applications.  He is supporting author on several peer reviewed papers.