Franklin Robinson is a thermal engineer and technologist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He leads the Thermal Technology Development and Demonstration (T2D2) Facility, which provides testing in thermal vacuum and planetary simulation chambers capable of replicating the environment of space, the Moon, Mars, Titan, and other planetary destinations. Robinson is also the principal investigator for the Flow Boiling in Microgap Coolers (FBMC) payload, which has flown aboard the Blue Origin New Shepard space vehicle four times. He is the NASA partner for an ongoing University SmallSat Technology Partnership (USTP) award focused on deployable solid-solid phase change materials and he oversees multiple active Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards. He is the recipient of the NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal and the Robert H. Goddard Exceptional Achievement Award for Engineering.