Mark Thornblom

Contact: mark.n.thornblom@nasa.gov

Mark Thornblom has 15 years of experience in the Federal Government working at NASA’s Langley Research Center. He joined the Game Changing Development (GCD) program office in 2019 as a program element manager, managing a portfolio of successful technology development projects across the agency. In his current capacity, Mark serves as the GCD Deputy Program Manager for Technical Integration. In this role, he oversees the overall technical progress and advancement of the program portfolio and ensures technical alignment of the program with the NASA’s goals and objectives.   

Prior to joining GCD, Mark served from 2014-2019 as the branch head of the Systems Integration and Test Branch within the Engineering Directorate at Langley. In this role, he coordinated integration and flight qualification test activities for a wide variety of successful space flight missions for NASA and the Department of Defense. He has served on the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Ground Test Technical Committee, the NASA Space Environments Capabilities Leadership Team, and as a member of the AIAA Space Simulation Working Group.

Mark received a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Alabama and a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland, with an emphasis in space flight systems analysis. He has spent the majority of his career in the development, integration, and testing of space flight systems. His areas of expertise include passive thermal control engineering, thermal test engineering, contamination control engineering, and flight systems assembly, integration, and testing. Mark enjoys camping, hiking, and climbing and is also an avid runner and cyclist.