Career record
Flights
1
Launches with a definitive outcome — the Stats basis
Career time in space
9m
Career EVA time
under a minute
Spacewalks
0
Biography
Ken is a software engineer and entrepreneur who shaped today's technology-based family history industry when he developed the Family Tree Maker product line in the 1990s. The company was acquired by Ancestry.com in 2003. In 2001, Ken gave back by founding Science Buddies, a K-12 nonprofit created to level the playing field and improve STEM literacy by inspiring students through free, personalized, hands-on projects in all areas of science, including space exploration. Science Buddies has reached one-quarter billion users. Ken’s lifelong passion for space exploration is in his DNA, with numerous early American pioneers in his mother’s lineage and many engineers and technicians in his father’s.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Launches
- New Shepard | NS-25 — Tourist · Success · May 19, 2024 · 14:35 UTC
Born 1953-01-22