Laura was one of the Crew Operations & Resource Engineers (CORE) who helped put the United States back in the human spaceflight business. As one of the initial members of the operations team for SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, she was on console for the first Dragon mission in 2010, the first mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2012, and supported the commercial crew contract over the next decade, including the mission that delivered astronauts to the ISS in 2020. During that mission, Laura was the lead trainer for the crew and one of the CORE operators who communicated with and advocated for the crew during free flight. She began her career at Northrop Grumman, working on various programs for DARPA and other DoD customers. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Astronautical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Systems Architecture, both from the University of Southern California, and is currently the CEO and co-founder of Epsilon3.