Tim Pickens
Tim Pickens serves as Bigelow Aerospace Propulsion Department Manager. Since 1999, the mission of Bigelow Aerospace, based in North Las Vegas, has been to provide affordable destinations for national space agencies and corporate clients. Tim is leading from Huntsville, Alabama, the development of future Bigelow propulsion systems.
Tim most recently served as Vice President of Propulsion for Moon Express, a privately funded lunar transportation and data services company. Prior to that, he served as Commercial Space Advisor and Chief Propulsion Engineer for Huntsville-based Dynetics.
Tim founded Orion Propulsion, a Huntsville aerospace company, in 2004 and sold it to Dynetics in 2009 after growing it to a 40-employee, $6.4 million business. Within five years, Orion had received multiple Small Business awards and become AS9100 certified to build man-rated flight hardware. Before founding Orion, Tim worked for small hardware-rich aerospace companies in Huntsville, as well as serving
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