Michael Johnson

Mr. Johnson’s career reflects a deep involvement with the aerospace industry and spaceflight. After earning a Bachelor of Science degree, Mr. Johnson spent 10 years working on the Space Shuttle program for Lockheed at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). There, he served as General Manager of the Chemical Analysis Laboratory and Spaceflight Hardware Precision Cleaning and Refurbishment Operation. Mr. Johnson then joined Wiltech of Florida where he designed facility equipment and solvent delivery systems, eventually being promoted to General Manager. During his 21-year career at Wiltech, he took part in a joint research and development project with Boeing and NASA to develop a replacement for the environmentally hazardous Freon 113 solvent. Additionally, he led a team that collaborated with Lockheed to clean a contaminated titanium tube assembly without the need to remove it from the Orion space capsule. His professional experience also includes work as a Systems Engineer at Lockheed.

While he was at Aero Electronics a long-time colleague suggested to both Mike and the senior leadership of Astro Pak that, as a recognized subject matter expert in a highly specialized cleaning process for spacecraft, Mike and Astro Pak would be a good fit.