Don Rapp Email and Phone Number

I have 62 years of post-doctoral experience. I am a true generalist. I am 50% scientist and 50% engineer. I have worked on an extremely wide variety of technical problems over the years and I have broad knowledge of things technical. I have a solid grounding in chemistry and physics and did fundamental work in these sciences for many years. In the second half of my career I worked on more applied problems, particularly in space technology and space mission design. I am an expert in requirements, architectures and transportation systems for space missions, with particular emphasis on impact of in situ resource utilization, and water resources. I have surveyed the wide field of global climate change and ice ages and I am familiar with the entire literature of climatology. I am known far and wide in the NASA community for my abilities to plan, organize and lead studies of broad technical systems. My services have been often sought in writing and reviewing major proposals for space ventures. I have written and published 8 books.From 2015 to 2023 I was a co-investigator on the Mars MOXIE Project documenting progress and analyzing various aspects of the data and operations. In that work, I produced a large number of internal reports and co-authored five papers.In 2022 I was given the Gan Dunn award by the Cooper Union which "honors an outstanding alumnus for professional achievement."