Mark Sirangelo
Corporate Vice President
Space Systems
Sierra Nevada Corporation
United States of America
Biography
As a longtime, credible voice and global leader within the aerospace industry, Mark Sirangelo heads SNC’s Space Systems business area. Sirangelo has helped to build and grow an SNC product portfolio including small satellites; space technologies that have enabled more than 450 planetary missions such as the Mars Curiosity Rover and New Horizons Pluto mission and, perhaps most notably, he is leading development of the Dream Chaser® spacecraft recently selected for NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services 2 (CRS2) contract. Sirangelo assumed his current role as corporate vice president in 2009, when SNC acquired SpaceDev Inc., where Sirangelo was chairman and CEO. He is chairman emeritus of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, a member of the board of governors of the Aerospace Industries Association, the founding and current chairman of eSpace, and the Center for Space Entrepreneurship, a nonprofit that supports STEM education and the development of entrepreneurial space companies. Sirangelo has been inducted as an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and was inducted into the NASA/Space Foundation’s Technology Hall of Fame.
Research Interest
Space Systems
