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Kerry Funston

Fleet Engineer, Deep Space Logistics, Gateway Program

Kerry Funston is a fleet engineer for NASA’s Gateway Deep Space Logistics (DSL) Project office at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. She serves as verification lead responsible verification tracking, integration, and closure of the requirements. She also serves as technical representative to JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency).

Experience

Funston began her career in 1989 at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. There she specialized in rotodynamics for turbopumps including for the main engines of NASA’s space shuttle. She also contributed to flight control and development of NASA and Lockheed Martin’s X-33 Advanced Technology Demonstrator test vehicle as well as early modeling and simulation of Ares 1-X and Boeing’s X-37 Approach and Landing test vehicle. As a team lead in Systems Engineering, she supported the design and analysis of the agency’s Space Launch System.

In 2016 Funston relocated to Kennedy to work with the Commercial Crew Program chief engineer’s office in support of NASA’s SpaceX Demo-1, Demo-2, and Crew-1 missions before joining DSL in 2020.

Awards

Funston received the astronauts’ Silver Snoopy award in March 2024. She also received NASA’s Exceptional Achievement Medal in 2021, two NASA Silver Medals in 2020 and 2016, and the NASA Honor Award in 2007.

Education

Funston attained a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering from Auburn University in Alabama.

Personal

Funston enjoys spending time with family, traveling, and playing guitar in church choir.

Biography created January 2025