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Edgar Zapata

NASA Kennedy Space Center

KSC, FL 32899

321-867-6234

Mr. Zapata has worked with NASA at the Kennedy Space Center since 1988. In that time he has held responsibility for Shuttle systems including the Shuttle External Tank and the Shuttle cryogenic propellant loading systems, and related systems. For over a decade he has worked to translate the operations experience into improvements in flight and ground systems design so as to achieve improvements in ground processing operations from landing through launch, in all aspects from direct to in-direct operations areas. He participated in the Explorations Systems Architecture Study or “ESAS” contributing Launch and Landing Ground Operations cost estimation and integration into life-cycle cost analysis processes as part of deciding the new NASA architecture to follow the Space Shuttle. Mr. Zapata looks forward to a day when access to space is safe, routine and affordable as a result of taking advantage of, quantifying, and understanding the experience and lessons of ongoing space transportation systems operations.

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