David Dunham head shot

David Dunham

Mission Design Chief, KinetX

David Dunham is the Mission Design Chief at KinetX Aerospace Inc., working on spacecraft trajectory design. He worked as a contractor at the Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM), supervising the study of trajectories for human exploration beyond the Moon, and for planetary protection. He is also part-time for the MESSENGER mission at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), and was the head of the mission design team on the NEAR Shoemaker mission to the asteroid Eros.