We are inventors, designers, engineers, scientists, tinkerers, gamers, entrepreneurs, adventurers, activists, global citizens, architects, musicians, builders, writers, athletes and space nerds.
Our team worked on deep space optical navigation, led the production of Falcon 9 at SpaceX, flew the DART spacecraft as it crashed into an asteroid in 2022, built novel lunar landers and designed the missions for OSIRIS-REx and Psyche.
Alison Dufresne - Program Lead
Dale Howell - GNC
Daynan Crull - Co-founder & mission architect
Dianna Velez - Flight Operations
Jaylyn Daugherty - Excavation
Jesse Miller - Spacecraft Structures
Kalle Anderson - Optical Navigation
Lauri Siltala - Research Scientist
Lisa Whittle - Mission Design
Luke Bowersox - Excavation
Mat Daniel - Spacecraft Avionics
Melissa Hallam - Operations
Simon Hallam - Excavation & Applied Research
Teun van den Dries - Co-founder & CEO