Colt Wallace
Raytheon Missile & Defense
Iowa State University, B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, 2005; M.E. in Systems Engineering, 2006
Colt Wallace is an Iowa Space Grant Consortium alum who has paved an incredible path for himself in the world of STEM. He started out at Iowa State University pursuing a B.S in Aerospace Engineering and eventually receiving his M.S. in Systems Engineering from the same institution. Read more.
Kimberlee Prokhorov
Johnson Space Center
Iowa State University, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 1995
For as long as I can remember, I wanted to work for NASA. Thanks to a quality education at Iowa State University, and my involvement in the Iowa Space Grant Consortium (ISGC), my dream became reality. Read more.
Mike Lammers
Johnson Space Center
Iowa State University, B.S. in Aerospace Engineering
My name is Mike Lammers, a NASA Flight Director at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. As one of a handful of active Flight Directors, I lead the ground team in Mission Control as well as the crew on board the International Space Station. Read more.
Elspeth Petersen
Kennedy Space Center
Iowa State University, M.S. in Chemical Engineering
I honestly would not be where I am today without the ISGC, and I am eternally grateful to the organization. I grew up thinking an engineer was someone who drove trains. When I got to college, it was my understanding that engineers were way smarter than I could ever hope to be, and I still didn’t really know what they did.
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Darin Hoover
United States Air Force
University of Iowa, B.S. in Industrial/Human Factors Engineering
I applied for the Iowa Space Grant Consortium (ISGC) programs and received a scholarship entering my sophomore year at the University of Iowa. This opportunity connected me to Dr. Tom Schnell’s Operator Performance Lab where I worked throughout the rest of my time at Iowa. Read more.