• Brooke Owens Fellow, Class of 2019

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.S. Aerospace Engineering, '20

• Host Institution: Generation Orbit

• Mentors: Danielle Wood & Laura Seward Forczyk

Natalie Pfister is a Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation, and Control Associate Engineer for Northrop Grumman Space Systems. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2020. While in school Natalie was an active member of the Illinois Space Society, where she designed a tool for the NASA Micro-g NExT challenge with her teammates and even presented that tool to astronauts for feedback. Additionally, she loved spending time doing educational outreach activities in the local community and mentoring freshmen students as an Engineering Learning Assistant.

As a Brooke Owens Fellow, Natalie worked as a Structures Engineering Intern with Generation Orbit in Atlanta, Georgia. There, she designed and modeled hardware for use in manufacturing and testing Generation Orbit’s flight vehicle and developed a tool to easily identify worst-case stress scenarios for various components.

Natalie has always loved learning and is known for having a new fun science, culture, or history fact to share every time you meet her. In her free time, she enjoys learning new languages, watching international TV shows and movies, picking up new hobbies like knitting and embroidery, and going hiking.