Bassam Alfeeli is life-long space enthusiast trained by NASA astronauts and engineers at the Florida Space Institute. He has diverse technical and scientific backgrounds in advanced technologies including nanotechnology, lasers & photonics, advanced nuclear reactors design, and space technologies. He is founding partner and general manager of Orbital Space and led several private space missions which included a science payload to the International Space Station in 2020 and a CubeSat in low earth orbit launched in 2021. He is passionate about making space accessible to all.