Glenn Semmel

Glenn Semmel is the associate director of the Spaceport Integration and Services Directorate at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida since October 2021.

Semmel helps oversee a team of 160 professionals, including engineers, technicians, administrators, and support staff, through division and branch-level supervisors.

His organization integrates Kennedy’s processing activities and services across all spaceport customers, encompassing NASA projects and programs, other government agencies, and commercial partners at NASA Kennedy and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This includes developing and maintaining a master schedule for coordinating commercial and government entities within Kennedy Space Center operations involving flight operations, project control and integration, facilities management, infrastructure, logistics, propellants, spaceport management, and medical and environmental services.

Experience

Semmel brings senior management, engineering, and technical expertise to contracts involving approximately 1,600 employees, with an estimated value of $294 million. He helps initiate, develop, and recommend comprehensive strategies and procedures that sustain NASA Kennedy as a multiuser spaceport.

In 2017, Semmel assumed leadership of the Medical and Environmental Services Division, overseeing the coordination of medical, environmental health, and environmental management activities to ensure the well-being of the workforce, workplace, and environment. During this time, he chaired the NASA Environmental and Medical Contract source evaluation board, leading to the development of a $323 million acquisition that supports NASA Kennedy, NASA Headquarters, field centers, and the United States Space Force with environmental compliance, health, and aerospace medicine services.

In 2012, while leading the Environmental Management Branch, he chaired a centerwide steering committee aimed at transforming Kennedy Space Center into a sustainability-focused spaceport.

Semmel began his career at Kennedy Space Center in 1990 as a software engineer in the Launch Processing System. He has held multiple technical and supervisory leadership roles, including developing command and control product lines and leading efforts to integrate artificial intelligence-based technologies for Space Shuttle ground processing.

Awards

Semmel also received NASA’s 60th anniversary Space Flight Awareness Honoree award in 2018. Semmel won the agency’s Small Business Advocates Award in 2022 and in 2011 he received the Presidential Rank Award for exceptional engineer achievement and leadership in helping to plan the transformation of command and control capabilities at Kennedy.

Education

Semmel holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering, a Master of Science in engineering management, and a Master of Science in computer engineering, all from the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

Personal

Born in New York and raised in Orlando, Florida, he now resides in Oviedo, Florida, with his wife, Ana, and their two children.

Biography updated January 2025