Origin Stories Space Podcast

Diviya Devani's lifelong love of space, science and physics propelled her into the space sector. Named as one of 2022's Top 100 Rising Stars in Science & Engineering, she's a passionate advocate of women and young people in STEM, as well as the importance of diverse workforces.

After taking a very unconventional route into the sector, Stella Guillen is now a female leader in the space industry and CEO of Isar Aerospace. She's a passionate leader and a strong advocate of women in space and STEM. With an incredibly forward-thinking mindset, Stella is celebrating diversity and challenging outdated mentalities in the sector.

From an arts background, Kim Macharia is a shining example of not taking 'no' for an answer and keeping focussed on her goals. Now Chair to the Board of Directors for Space Frontier Foundation and Executive Director for Space Prize, Kim explains how taking risks in the Space sector pays off.

The voice for diversity and inclusion in the space sector, for this episode we speak to COO of Space Foundation, Shelli Brunswick. Making space accessible to everyone, she began her career in the US Airforce and promotes space inspired awareness and educational programmes across STEM at all levels.

Astrodynamicist, Space Environmentalist, TED fellow, Professor, Space Craft Navigator, Chief Scientists and Co-Founder of  Privateer Space alongside Steve Wozniak, we talk to Moriba Jah about sustainability of our planet and making space accessible to everybody. 

Former radio host, public speaker, Rachel Lyons is the Executive Director of the not-for-profit organisation Space for Humanity and talks to us about her role in the movement to expand access to space for all of humanity.

Laura Crabtree is living proof that STEM is cool. Finding her calling early on, Laura's career as a systems and operation engineer at Northrop Grumman and later SpaceX saw her at the controls of the first ever Dragon Mission in 2010 and instrumental in the crewed Dragon mission to the ISS in 2020.  In 2021, Laura Co-founded Epsilon3, a company focussing on operating systems for space craft and complex operating systems.

Inspired to 'make things better' we meet with Allan Cannon, the co-founder of R3-IoT who combine cutting edge satellite communications technology with the best of IoT to offer unique end-to-end data services to the 90% of the planet that lacks traditional communications infrastructure.

Fascinated at university by the various technical problems facing the space sector, Jeroen Cappaert started his career as an Aerospace and Aeronautics engineer. Witnessing that there were many more applications that can be enabled by space, Jeroen co-founded Spire and helped them scale to an international business. In this episode, Jeroen provides solid advice on how to be successful within the NewSpace sector.

From humble beginnings to founding her own commercial space company, Space Dots, Bianca Cefalo is a passionate advocate of diversity and inclusion within the space industry with a relentless drive for educating future generations on the opportunities of the space sector.