Dr. Roger Myers is co-founder and Chief Engineer of the ISSD. He is an aerospace consultant with over 35 years of experience in space propulsion and power system development, flight production, and spacecraft integration, and he currently supports several government and commercial clients. In 1996–2016 he held executive positions at Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Redmond Operations, the world’s leading supplier of spacecraft propulsion systems, leading development and production for NASA, DoD, and commercial missions to Earth orbit, cis-lunar and interplanetary space. Previously he worked at NASA’s Glenn Research Center leading advanced propulsion R&D. He has published over 100 papers on electric, chemical, and nuclear propulsion technology, spacecraft integration, and in-space transportation architectures. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022, has served on several NASEM committees, and is chair of the NASEM Space Technology, Industry, Government, University Roundtable. He is an AIAA Fellow and won both the AIAA Wyld Propulsion Award and the Electric Rocket Propulsion Society (ERPS) Stuhlinger Medal. He served as ERPS president in 2012–2020, was elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences in 2012 and was its president from 2020 to 2022. He holds a B.S.A.E. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in mechanical and aerospace from Princeton University.
