Kavya K. Manyapu is an Indian–American aerospace engineer and scientist. She currently works at NASA in the Branch for Lunar Exploration missions (Artemis Program) within the Flight Operations Directorate at JSC. She was part of the Boeing team for nearly 10 years that developed the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. She developed a fabric for self-cleaning space suits that uses carbon nanotubes to repel dust for use in future lunar and Mars missions.