Rob Kelso Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

Program Manager for commercial lunar lander design and development, flight and operations design under the NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contractHouston, Texas

Berlin Area, Germany

Houston

providing consulting in strategic development and leadership within the government and commercial aerospace community

Hilo, Hawai`I

"Our goal is to become the preferred provider for space agencies and commercial space businesses around the world that are developing technologies to help enable and sustain planetary surface exploration." -- Rob Kelso

Hilo, Hawai`I

The University of Hawai’i at Hilo is a member school of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Pacific West Conference.

Houston, Texas, United States

Detailed to NASA Headquarters, Washington DC to manage and lead the lunar commercial services program at NASA. Created innovative funding (Innovative Lunar Demonstration Data) approaches to commercial lunar lander companies. Interfaced with emerging commercial lunar lander companies. Assigned by NASA HQ to lead effort to develop agencies guidelines for perserving / protecting the Apollo Lunar Landing Sites as historic / heritage sites from damange from future visiting vehicles to the Apollo lunar landing sites. Guidelines adopted by U.S. Congress and OSTP.

Houston, Texas, United States

Served in the HTC technology business acceleration for entrepreneural technology companies. I managed the Aerospace Sector of the HTC business portfolio. HTC's goal was to assist innovative technology start-up companies in business planning, access to capital, support services.

Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas

NASA - Space Shuttle Flight Director, Mission Control Center 1988 -2000Directed 25 Space Shuttle missions (1988-2000) in the planning and execution of spacecraft, flight crew and ground communications network in the conduct of Shuttle mission operations.As Lead Flight Director, led many of NASA’s flight operations for highly classified, >$1B-class Department of Defense (DoD) spacecraft flown on Shuttle using the USAF Inertial Upper Stage booster (IUS)Also served as senior-level Mission Director for critical, high-value NASA missions for the launch/deployment/activation of NASA Chandra Space Telescope, NASA TDRSS satellites, NASA/ESA Ulysses solar spacecraft. Houston, Texas

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Public Administration

Physics

Activities and Societies: TEnnis Team, Gamma Gamma Gamma Fraternity