Our Executive Mentors

Stephanie Luongo

Stephanie is currently the Chief of Mission Operations at Sceye, Inc, a Moriarty, NM - based company, and leads the overall planning and execution of mission and experimental flight test operations for SCEYE’s stratospheric platforms. She has over 18 years of experience in the aerospace industry spread across design & development, integration, flight test planning and execution, operations, and management. Stephanie also serves as the Co-chair for the HAPS Alliance and is a Board Member for the New Mexico Spaceport Authority.

Stephanie began her career at Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) as a Systems Engineer working on autoland systems for unmanned aerial vehicles and autonomous carrier landing systems. After transferring to the Space Systems division of SNC to be part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, Stephanie played a critical role in the Dream Chaser Avionics, Flight Software, and Communications subsystems test and integration effort and served as a Flight Controller during vehicle ground and flight testing, including the first full-scale atmospheric flight test of the Dream Chaser.

After attending test pilot school at the National Test Pilot School (NTPS) in Mojave, CA, Stephanie contributed to the development of commercial space through her various roles in private industry including serving as the Director of Mission Operations and Chief Flight Test Engineer at World View Enterprises of Tucson, AZ, and as a Launch Operations Engineer for Blue Origin’s New Glenn heavy lift rocket, based at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Stephanie is a graduate of an internationally recognized test pilot school, holds master’s degrees in both Electrical and Flight Test Engineering, and is a single-engine and multi-engine pilot in in more than 25 different aircraft with commercial pilot and flight instructor certificates.