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Bill O'Hara

Principal Systems Engineer, Sierra Space

Bill has a uniquely combined education with an undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering and graduate degree in geophysics from the University of Cincinnati and the University of Houston, respectively. His master’s thesis was a drainage analysis of Noachian Martian valley networks. Bill worked at the Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas for 20 years. During that time he held a variety of positions including astronaut instructor, MCC flight controller for NASA’s International Space Station program, Orion Life Support System Lead, and advanced life support systems development project engineer. He relocated Denver Colorado in 2018 and is now a member of the Sierra Space’s Advanced Development group. He specializes in the design and development of deep space and planetary surface habitats as well as robotic landing spacecraft. Bill is also a part-time instructor for the American Public University System’s Space Sciences department and supports the APU Analog Research Group as a faculty advisor.

A veteran of NASA’s human test subject program, he flew on nine flights aboard the KC135 Vomit Comet. He has been a crewmember on three analog missions. In 2014 he was a member of the third crew to live in NASA’s Human Exploration Research Analog (HJERA) habitat. In 2018 he was a member of an expedition to the Haughton Mars Project Research Station located on Devon Island in the high Canadian Arctic. In 2021 he served as a crewmember to the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) analog located on slope of the Mauna Loa volcano.

Diallo Wallace

Diallo Wallace is an APUS Space Studies Instructor and a Naval Aviator. His research focuses on remote education during space expeditions.

Terry Trevino

Trevino is finishing up a Masters of Science in Space Studies with a concentration in Aerospace Science and an emphasis on Space Operations. He was recently inducted into the Society of Physics Students of the American Physics Society. He is the assistant manager of the University Observatory, working on his thesis with the topic of the search for exoplanets and eclipsing binary stellar properties using ground-based telescopes, searching for the proto-planetary neighborhoods where they live, leading several studies, including a Supernovae research group, studying type SN1a, Supernovae, working on and seeking several grants for a peer group of Masters and Undergraduate students, and the propagation of algae for an ISS study. He recently received his AIAA certifications in Propulsion Engineering, Launch Vehicle Design, and Astrodynamics.

Rose Worku

Rose Worku is a graduate student at APUS, where she intends to earn her Masters of Science in Space Studies with a concentration in Aerospace Science. Rose is one of the co-founders of the APUS Analog Research Group and works on the planning staff as the assistant program manager. She was the recipient of the Accelerating Space Commerce, Exploration, and New Discovery’s 2020 Diversity scholarship. Before joining the ILMAH crew, she interned at Forbes School of Business and Technology as a young thought leader and a slide master. Also, she is a graduate Research Assistant at the APUS Discovering Supernova program and a volunteer CAPCOM at the Hawai’i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation.

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​This will be Rose’s first analog mission. She will be conducting research on how how to create a small local ecosystem of tall fescues and fish, its effects on habitat carbon dioxide, and how much algae can be produced in the ILMAH aquaponics system without negatively affecting fish and plants.