Bio – Mary Murphy

Mary Murphy
Senior Internal Payloads Manager, NanoRacks LLC

Mary has worked at NanoRacks LLC since July 2014, as the Senior Internal Payloads Manager, she oversees Account Managers, managing customer expectations and making sure there is efficient use of NanoRacks and NASA resources.

She provides overall project coordination between stakeholders for all customer accounts and coordinates with business development and financial staff to ensure contractual requirements flow down to payload integration activities. Mary serves as the primary interface between customers and NASA senior management as required, between customers and NanoRacks Operations, Flight Safety, Engineering and Avionics teams as well.

Previously, Mary worked as a Program Engineer and Project Manager at Advanced Technology Systems Company, Teaching Fellow in Project Engineering and Manufacturing at the University of Maryland, and an Assistant Project Manager and Bid Coordinator at Sun Control Systems. Mary holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland and the Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification from The Project Management Institute.

The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) is a program of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in the U.S., and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education internationally. It is enabled through a strategic partnership with DreamUp PBC and NanoRacks LLC, which are working with NASA under a Space Act Agreement as part of the utilization of the International Space Station as a National Laboratory. SSEP is the first pre-college STEM education program that is both a U.S. national initiative and implemented as an on-orbit commercial space venture.