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Chris C. Kemp
Official NASA portrait
Born
1977 (age 46–47)
Buffalo, New York
Nationality
American
Employer
Astra
Title
Founder, Chairman and CEO
Chris C. Kemp (born 1977) is an American entrepreneur who, along with Dr. Adam London,[1] founded Astra, a space technology firm based in California, in 2016.[2] He served as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California,[3] and as NASA's first Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for IT.[4] While at NASA, Kemp partnered with Google and Microsoft and helped in the creation of Google Moon and Mars.[5] He worked with the White House to develop the cloud computing strategy for the United States Federal Government and co-founded OpenStack, an open-source software project for cloud computing.[6][7] He was also one of the founders of Nebula, a company that from 2011 to 2015, worked to commercialise the technology.[8]
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^"Astra's first commercial launch fails to reach orbit". TechCrunch. August 30, 2021.
^"Chris C. Kemp, Chief Information Officer, NASA Ames Research Center". www.spacenews.com. December 14, 2009.
^"NASA Names Chief Technology Officer for IT". NASA. May 6, 2010. Archived from the original on November 8, 2010. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
^"With NASA, Google Expands it Realm to the Moon and Mars". NYT. December 19, 2006.
^"Chris Kemp Steps Down as CEO of Nebula, The OpenStack Startup". TechCrunch. September 13, 2013.
^"The OpenStack Foundation becomes the Open Infrastructure Foundation". TechCrunch. October 19, 2020.
^"About Nebula, Inc. Management Team". Nebula, Inc. Archived from the original on January 9, 2014.
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