Mike Flachbart

Born and raised in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Graduate of Marblehead High School and Bentley University, located in Waltham, Massachusetts. Worked at the world famous Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama from May 1997 to May 2016. Space Camp is a informal education program that has graduated over 850,000 trainees since 1982 which has included three graduates who have gone on to fly into space. Former Vice-President of Global Space Camp Operations at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, the official NASA visitor center for the Marshall Space Flight Center. Responsible for all aspects of the space and aviation education programs that served over 30,000 students annually from over 80 international locations, a staff of over 200 employees and an annual revenue budget exceeding $15 Million USD. Executive Producer and designer for the international traveling exhibit: Gateway to Space. This 3,000 square meter interactive space exhibit has traveled to: Tel Aviv, Israel; Baku, Azerbaijan; Udine, Italy; Copenhagen, Denmark; Prague, Czechia; Brussels, Belgium; Budapest, Hungary; Johannesburg, South Africa; and Warsaw, Poland. Project manager and designer for the Science on Orbit exhibit at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, in Huntsville Alabama which opened in January 2016. The NASA Grant funded exhibit showcases living and working on the International Space Station through a realistic mission control, focusing on the science, and three walk-through Space Station full scale modules. The exhibit concludes by allowing museum visitors to see Space Camp programs in action. Served on the International Board of Trustees of Trustees and worked for Destination Imagination based in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.