Will Pomerantz
@pomerantz.bsky.social
Head of Space at AeroVironment - my team makes Mars helicopters. Co-Founder, Brooke Owens Fellowship and Patti Grace Fellowship. Former planetary scientist. Husband, Dad, and Den Leader
And the Patti Grace Smith Fellowship was designed specifically to be the best program to help you get into the position to contribute, and ultimately to lead.
Applications are due October 17th (that's next Friday).
Learn more and apply at pgsfellowship.org/apply
Applications are due October 17th (that's next Friday).
Learn more and apply at pgsfellowship.org/apply
Apply for the Patti Grace Smith Fellowship! — Patti Grace Smith Fellowship
Our award-winning program provides extraordinary undergraduates with their first work experience in the aerospace industry, personalized mentorship, and a cohort of similarly driven and talented stude...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
And the Patti Grace Smith Fellowship was designed specifically to be the best program to help you get into the position to contribute, and ultimately to lead.
Applications are due October 17th (that's next Friday).
Learn more and apply at pgsfellowship.org/apply
Applications are due October 17th (that's next Friday).
Learn more and apply at pgsfellowship.org/apply
Aerospace work is fun, important, and really, really challenging. We need ideas from every perspective if we are going to accomplish the ambitious things that we all dream of doing. To succeed, we need you.
October 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Aerospace work is fun, important, and really, really challenging. We need ideas from every perspective if we are going to accomplish the ambitious things that we all dream of doing. To succeed, we need you.
So, undergrads, if you feel like you need more aerospace in your life, please know this: the aerospace community needs you just as much as you need it.
October 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
So, undergrads, if you feel like you need more aerospace in your life, please know this: the aerospace community needs you just as much as you need it.
We named the Fellowship after Patti Grace Smith, a vital pillar in the aerospace community and key player the origin story of our modern commercial space industry -- as well as an incredible civil rights pioneer and a true role model of mine.
October 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
We named the Fellowship after Patti Grace Smith, a vital pillar in the aerospace community and key player the origin story of our modern commercial space industry -- as well as an incredible civil rights pioneer and a true role model of mine.
Whether you've been longing to work in aerospace your whole life or it is a potential career path you just recently discovered, if you want in to the aerospace industry, this is your chance!
October 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Whether you've been longing to work in aerospace your whole life or it is a potential career path you just recently discovered, if you want in to the aerospace industry, this is your chance!
We created the Patti Grace Smith Fellowship for students who are talented, passionate, and just getting started with an aerospace career.
October 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
We created the Patti Grace Smith Fellowship for students who are talented, passionate, and just getting started with an aerospace career.
Reposted by Will Pomerantz
Read about it here, in PSJ, just out in the winter!
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May 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Read about it here, in PSJ, just out in the winter!
doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/...
doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/...
And thank goodness for that. Keep up the good work!
(And if you ever want to talk Mars helicopters, goodness knows I can talk about that til the cows come home!)
(And if you ever want to talk Mars helicopters, goodness knows I can talk about that til the cows come home!)
April 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
And thank goodness for that. Keep up the good work!
(And if you ever want to talk Mars helicopters, goodness knows I can talk about that til the cows come home!)
(And if you ever want to talk Mars helicopters, goodness knows I can talk about that til the cows come home!)
Thanks for the correction! I thought I recalled it being Surveyor 3… but I made the slide 19 years ago, so my memory seems to have been a little off!
March 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Thanks for the correction! I thought I recalled it being Surveyor 3… but I made the slide 19 years ago, so my memory seems to have been a little off!
Much of 2025 isn't what I expected or hoped for, to say the least. But this? This is the future we dreamed of, hoped for, and dared to think might be possible!
March 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Much of 2025 isn't what I expected or hoped for, to say the least. But this? This is the future we dreamed of, hoped for, and dared to think might be possible!
Before the champagne is fully dry for Blue Ghost's successful landing, we will also see commercial lunar robotic landing attempts from Intuitive Machines and from ispace, both of which have hardware en route to the Moon now.
March 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Before the champagne is fully dry for Blue Ghost's successful landing, we will also see commercial lunar robotic landing attempts from Intuitive Machines and from ispace, both of which have hardware en route to the Moon now.
I couldn't be more thrilled for the hard working folks at Firefly and at NASA, who displayed incredible vision and engineering prowess in pulling this off.
March 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I couldn't be more thrilled for the hard working folks at Firefly and at NASA, who displayed incredible vision and engineering prowess in pulling this off.