Kenneth Harris II


Kenneth Fitzgerald Harris II is an American engineer, who works with the Goddard Space Flight Center. He has worked on several flight projects including the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Satellite, the Global Precipitation Measurement Satellite, and the Joint Polar Satellite System. He was the Deputy Lead Integration Engineer for the James Webb Space Telescope ISIM IEC, which houses the computing and electrical resources for the satellite. The media has portrayed him as a "Face of NASA" saying "He has worked on five different satellite missions since he started working at NASA at age 16" and he is "the youngest African-Americans to lead integration efforts on the telescope."

Career

Education

Kenneth Harris obtained his Masters degree from Johns Hopkins University in Engineering Management and his Bachelors of Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in Mechanical Engineering.

Awards and Honors