MIKE LEWIS, 38 Chief technology officer and chief engineer at NanoRacks

摘要

As a boy in New Mexico, a chance encounter at school with geologist and former Apollo astronaut Harrison Schmitt gave Mike Lewis a lifelong interest in space research. It was an interest that would take years of patience to cultivate into a stable, full-time job. In 2012, while working in Houston as a structural engineer in the oil and gas industry, Lewis began working on the side for NanoRacks, the Houston company that arranges experiments on rockets and the International Space Station, an is designing a commecial space habitat. Today, as the top technologist at NanoRacks, Lewis is among those at the forefront of space commercialization.