Melissa Pore

Melissa is an educational leader in aerospace working with groups like NASA's Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN), NASA Intern Program, Space Center Houston SEEC Crew, and the Center for Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) through the International Space Station National Lab. She currently focuses her space passion as an engineering teacher.

Melissa has led 3 student satellite missions to orbit including the 1st ever CubeSat built by grade school students. She is a licensed Amateur Radio operator and an Ambassador for the Education Committee for Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). She serves on the US ARISS Ops team at Goddard Space Flight Center, known as the original Space Shuttle Retransmission Station, performing antennae operations for ARISS education downlinks between schools and astronauts LIVE on the ISS. Melissa also serves as a member of the User Advisory Committee (UAC) for the International Space Station National Lab.