Michelle Lucas spent 10+ years working at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. First as part of the International Space Station (ISS) Payload Safety Review Panel (PSRP) and then in the Mission Operations Directorate as a Flight Controller in ISS Mission Control and as an Astronaut Instructor in the ISS Daily Operations Group. Additionally, she worked with each of the International Partners (European Space Agency – ESA, Japanese Space Agency – JAXA, and the Russian Space Agency) in the field of Daily Operations, Flight Controller, and Instructor Training. Michelle was part of the Core NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) team for 9 missions where astronauts would carry out analog space missions underwater in the Aquarius habitat. Along the way, Michelle found she has a passion for launching the next generation’s dreams and ambitions. Her passion for inspiring students led to extensive work with other organizations in STEM outreach so she founded the non-profit Higher Orbits to use space to excite and inspire students about STEM, Leadership, Teamwork, and Communication. Michelle is proud to be a Space Camp Alum, AIAA Associate Fellow, and member of the Space Camp Hall of Fame. She believes that collaboration in space and STEM is the key to the stars! Space Inspires!

Dr. MacKunis is currently an Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Coordinator for Engineering Physics at Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach campus. He has extensive experience with control system engineering for mechanical and aerospace systems and dynamics and control of fluid flow systems.William MacKunis received his Ph.D. degree in 2009 from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida (UF) as a UF Alumni Fellow. After completing his doctoral studies, he was selected as a National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Air Force Research Laboratory Munitions Directorate at Eglin Air Force Base, where he worked in the Guidance and Navigation Division. In 2010, Dr. MacKunis joined the faculty of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in the Department of Physical Sciences, where he is currently an associate professor and the Engineering Physics Undergraduate Program Coordinator. His main research is in the development and application of Lyapunov-based control techniques for mechanical and aerospace systems with uncertain nonlinear dynamic models. Dr. MacKunis’ research has involved numerous control applications, including guidance and navigation of satellites, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), wheeled mobile robots, hypersonic vehicles, missile guidance systems, vibration suppression systems, neural networks, photovoltaic power systems, and closed-loop active flow control. He is the co-author of two book chapters and over 90 refereed journal articles and conference papers. His work has been recognized by NASA, NSF, and by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Award (2011-2013). He is currently or has served as an associate editor for the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Editorial Board and Journal of Control Science and Engineering.​List of publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dkUV8cQAAAAJ&hl=en

Assistant Professor & Wessel Fellow, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityVisiting Scholar, NASA Ames Research Center, Blue Marble Space Institute of SciencesCollege of Arts & Sciences (COAS) 401.02, 1 Aerospace Blvd., Daytona Beach, FL 32114Omics Lab for Health & Human Performance, Department of Humans Factorsamber.m.paul@nasa.gov ; amber.paul@erau.edu​Amber M. Paul, is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Physiology and Embry-Riddle Wessel Fellow at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Dr. Paul received her BSc in Immunology from the University of Alberta, Canada and Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Southern Mississippi. She completed her postdoctoral training at NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) as a Universities Space Research Association (USRA) fellow and was part of the science team that flew the Multi-Use Variable Gravity Platform, MVP-Techshot (MVP-FLY-01) SpaceX-14 mission. Dr. Paul is currently a co-Investigator on a NASA's Human Research Program funded grant and is affiliated with NASA ARC as a Visiting Scholar through Blue Marble Space Institute of Sciences (BMSIS). She is a member of the American Astronautical Society, Radiation Research Society, NASA GeneLab Animal and Educational working groups, American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR), and American Association of Immunologists. She is also a Canadian Space Ambassador for the Canadian Space Agency. She is currently co-leading the Omics Lab for Health and Human Performance at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Dr. Paul's research focuses on immunity and neuroendocrine crosstalk in extreme environmental conditions and is interested in how physiological stress in both acute and chronic settings impacts immunity and nervous system function. Her goal is to identify signaling pathways involved and develop countermeasures that can circumvent these impacts.