Vladimir Castanon serves in the Space Mission Directorate as a Student Engineer within the Department of Space Operations and is an undergraduate at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has a background in Mechanical Design, Analysis, and AIT nearing half a decade of experience in a wide range of aerospace projects, from scientific payloads to aerodynamic deflection analysis. Vladimir is currently working on Lunar projects such as DIMPLE, and Solar projects such as JEDI and SWSCOR.