Brian
Wojcik.

It started on the shores of Lake Erie in western New York — a kid staring up at the night sky, wondering what was out there and how we'd reach it. That same kid spent weekends and late nights buried in documentation, building websites for hobbies and local non-profits. By sixteen, I'd accepted my first professional role as a software developer for a Nashville company — working remotely before remote was a thing. Those years taught me to stay curious, think systematically, and turn ideas into reality.

The career that followed ran through digital transformation and data systems at Fortune 100 companies. Then everything changed: I stood at Kennedy Space Center and watched a launch — and a landing. True rocket reusability, demonstrated in front of me. It was the most inspiring moment of my life, and it reignited something the spreadsheets never touched. Within a year I'd moved from Tennessee to the Space Coast to build alongside people chasing the same mission.

Spaceflight, to me, isn't about leaving Earth behind — it's about pushing the boundary of what's possible and letting the innovation rain back down on the planet. The idea that captivates me most: data centers built into the Moon's permanently shadowed craters, cooled for free by the oldest cold there is. We are on the cusp of solving problems once thought impossible — and the rockets rising off this coast are how we get there.