Payload Pioneers 2023: Marilee Jooste
Marilee Jooste is a testament to the fact that talent in the space industry can come from anywhere.
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Payload Pioneers 2023: Nidhi Sandeep Vasaikar
Nidhi Sandeep Vasaikar, a 28-year-old aerospace engineer from India, is on a mission to advance STEM education among students in underserved communities.
Payload Pioneers 2023: Emma Louden
As a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University, Emma Louden is working at the intersection of astrophysics and the aerospace industry.
Payload Pioneers 2023: Kevin Stadnyk
The founder of the world’s only dedicated rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking (RPOD) software company is aiming to fix the debris problem in Earth’s orbit.
Payload Pioneers 2023: Patrick Finley
Patrick Finley is building a bridge to connect academic aspirations with real-world aerospace innovations, making rocketry more accessible and tangible for the next generation.
Payload Pioneers 2023: Léa Duthil
Léa Duthil considers herself a professional stargazer.
Payload Pioneers 2023: Owen Marr
Owen Marr, a Blue Origin systems engineer working on New Shepard, is driven to make space accessible to all.
Payload Pioneers 2023: Victoria Carter-Cortez
Victoria Carter-Cortez, a space strategy consultant at the professional services firm PwC, spent her undergraduate years as an astrophysics student.
Payload Pioneers 2023: Stephanie Gavell
If you told Stephanie Gavell the problem wasn’t rocket science, she didn’t want to be a part of it.
Payload Pioneers 2023: Thao Nguyen
Thao Nguyen’s work at ICON could allow people to essentially build the Moon version of mud huts.
Payload Pioneers 2023: Jennifer Horowitz
Mapping the Earth from space provides obvious benefits for defense and navigation, but Jennifer Horowitz, Maxar’s senior technical strategic partnerships lead, believes the technology has much broader implications.
Payload Pioneers 2023: Josh Ingersoll
If there’s anyone who understands that the space industry is more than *just one thing,* it’s Josh Ingersoll.