Joe Parrish
Director, Early Stage Innovation
NASA Headquarters
Joe Parrish is the Director for Early Stage Innovation in NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist (OCT). His career has focused on advanced technology development for challenging missions in the aerospace and defense sector. He comes to OCT from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, where was responsible for technology assessment and mission architecture planning for future robotic missions to Mars. Before joining the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mr. Parrish was President of Payload Systems, Inc. and Vice President–Research & Development at Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. — two small businesses providing technology development and implementation services to academia, government, and industry.
Prior to his time in industry, Mr. Parrish was employed by NASA, where he served as the Robotic Systems Architect for the International Space Station program, led the development of a spacecraft servicing telerobot, and served as a Program Executive for solar system exploration missions. Mr. Parrish holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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