Edward Stanton

Ed Staton is on detail in the role of Deputy Chief of the Project Management Division, Code PX. Most recently Ed served as the SOFIA Project Manager at NASA Ames Research Center. He started his career at the NASA Johnson Space Center (1990-1997) in Houston, TX working Shuttle Approach and Landing software loads, then Secondary payloads and on the International Space Station’s (ISS) Robotics.  Ed then worked at NASA Ames Research Center (1997-2004) on SOFIA.  On a detail assignment at NASA Headquarters for a year in 2004, Ed worked with a team to define the Exploration Constellation requirements.  In 2005 Ed started working at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida as an ISS Ground Operations Engineer and in 2007 started working in the Orion Production Operations Office.  For the 2015 Fall semester, Ed taught at a class at University of Southern California’s (USC) Engineering department.  In 2016 Ed returned to NASA Ames and SOFIA.

Ed grew up in Connecticut but traveled across the county to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from USC.  He also obtained a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Houston and a second MS degree in Aerospace Engineering from USC.

Ed received multiple awards over the years at NASA including the Space Flight Awareness Honoree Award, Constellation Program Manager Commendation and multiple NASA Group Achievement Awards.  Ed enjoys kiteboarding, wakeboarding, and snowboarding.