Speaker Biography

Chris Kapp

Space Ambassador

National Space Society

Chris got the space bug early in life with his father working for the US Air Force at Wright Patterson AFB. Chris studied aeronautical engineering at RWTH Aachen (Germany) and NIT Trondheim (Norway) where he finished with a master’s of science (Dipl.-Ing.) degree.

His career focused on Oil & Gas, Energy and industrial turbomachinery applications for companies such as Siemens and Rolls-Royce. Chris started a joint venture in Pune, India with the Kirloskar group. Currently Chris works as a consultant and as a professor for engineering at Lone Star College. He has worked with the American Petroleum Institute, Dept. of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency on technology, efficiency and environmental performance of turbomachinery.

Chris is married and lives in Houston, TX. His wife Sharon is an Ayurvedic doctor. The youngest of three sons, attended the NASA Hunch program in High School, and went on to study physics and astronomy at Texas A&M and is working in the satellite industry in Colorado, continuing the family aerospace tradition.