Kevin Kempton is currently a Program Element Manager in NASA’s Game Changing Development (GCD) Program and also a challenge coordinator for the Prizes and Challenges Program. He recently led the development of the Mars Ice Home habitat design study through the Center Innovation Fund and is now leading a concept study for a mobile lunar gantry. Mr. Kempton was also the PI for a study called PHLOTE (Phobos L1 Operational Tether Experiment) through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program. Previously, Mr. Kempton was the project manager for the Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology (ALHAT) Sensor Development at Langley where he planned and supported the integration and flight test campaigns that led up to the successful flight test of the ALHAT system on the Morpheus vehicle at KSC. Before ALHAT, Mr. Kempton was the Lead Systems Engineer for the CLARREO Climate Mission Development. He also served as the Lead Systems Engineer and Verification Manager for the Ares I-X Demonstration Flight Test and was awarded the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award as well as the Space Flight Awareness Award for leadership and innovations in systems engineering. When time allows, Mr. Kempton enjoys woodworking, carving, building RC airplanes and crafting new things from unusual materials.