In May 2023, astronaut, STEAM advocate, and business pioneer John Shoffner served as Pilot on Axiom Space Ax-2 mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Throughout the duration of his mission, he hosted live events with schools around the world, demonstrating life in microgravity.

Dr. Hoffman is Professor of the Practice and Director of the Man Vehicle Lab at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Joseph Paradiso directs the MIT Media Lab’s Responsive Environments group, which explores how sensor networks augment and mediate human experience, interaction, and perception.

Tobias Röddiger is a Group Leader at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. His main research is Wearable Systems technology.

Dante Latessa is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist who merges traditional art practices with cutting-edge computer science. As the founder of Synthesis:1, a video game and graphics studio, Dante pushes the boundaries of creative innovation.

Leonie Bensch is a Visiting Researcher at the MIT Media Lab’s Responsive Environments group and the Space Exploration Initiative. She designs and develops the Unreal Engine-based payload dashboard and the integrated AI assistant.

Oliver Bensch is a researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and a Research Visitor at Harvard’s Geometric Machine Learning Group. He specializes in AI and space technologies and is pursuing a PhD at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

W. Craig Carter is an American materials scientist, a POSCO Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Annie Wang is a research scientist at MIT. Prior to joining MIT.nano - Special Projects, her research interests in manipulating multi-layered thin films have been applied to devices and applications ranging from thin film transistor technologies and organic optoelectronics to microelectromechanical systems and solar photovoltaics.

Nataliya is a research scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is passionate about an idea of creating a partnership between AI and human intelligence, fusion of a machine and a human brain. She obtained her Ph.D in 2015 in the domain of non-invasive Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) as a part of EHCI team of Université Grenoble-Alpes, France.

Somayajulu Dhulipala is an PhD Candidate in the Mechanical Engineering Department of MIT currently working on developing lightweight high strength materials for automobile and aerospace applications.

Jan Tiepelt is a Ph.D Candidate in the Spin & Excitonic Engineering Group in EECS at MIT. Expert in micro- and nanofabrication techniques.

Jon MacArthur, PhD, works in the Aero/Astro department at MIT and part of the Space Propulsion Lab working on electric propulsion for spacecraft.

Patrick Chwalek is a PhD candidate in the Responsive Environments Group at MIT, developing sensor systems for environmental monitoring. His research spans wildlife tracking, urban well-being, and deployable technologies.

Lenny Paritsky is an experienced aerospace and systems engineering leader who develops advanced technologies for small spacecraft.

Jamie Milliken (he/him) has over 20 years of experience designing and implementing embedded electronic systems, with a focus on robotics and sensor integration.

Mehak Sarang is currently based in Denver, CO. She works with NASA to integrate scientific instruments aboard commercial lunar landers as part of the CLPS program first at Masten Space Systems, and now at ispace U.S.

As a member of the SpaceX mission management team, Becca has a hybrid systems engineering/program management role where she owns various aspects of customer missions, including test plans, verifications and operations.

Dr. Antosca serves as the COO of Aurelia Institute, a hybrid space architecture research institute and venture incubation studio.

Dr. Forrest Meyen is a Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of the space robotics company, Lunar Outpost.

Lawrence Azerrad is the Chief Creative Officer and co-founder of Macroscopic. With a decades-long career as a creative director, author, and design innovation thought leader, Lawrence specializes in creative strategy incubation and executions rooted in transformational design and future-thinking across digital, tangible, and experiential realms.

Richelle Ellis is an expeditionary artist, curator, and analog astronaut. Her art and research aims to use space to help life on Earth, to see the world – and ourselves – in new ways. Richelle creates artworks made for international orbit, etched on satellites, suspended by Stratollite balloons and aboard rockets, and is one of the first women to have art on the surface of the Moon.

Sarah Kraft is the Design Strategist and Creative Operations between Inploration and Macroscopic. She leads day to day operations and production management.

Tiffany is the Managing Director for Inploration. Tiffany has 19 years of extensive experience in the arts and philanthropy sectors.