SpaceX
Marco Mascari is an experienced IT professional currently serving as Manager of IT Infrastructure at SpaceX since January 2024, where leadership of a team of IT engineers focuses on the design and management of critical infrastructure for engineering and mission teams. Prior to this role, Marco held the position of Manager of Systems & Infrastructure Administration at UCLA Information Technology Services from June 2022 to January 2024, ensuring the continuous operation of essential systems for the campus community. From October 2015 to May 2022, Marco served as Chief Technology Officer at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, achieving significant milestones such as cloud migration and data center re-architecture. Marco’s earlier experience includes roles as Associate Director of Information Technology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and System Administrator at the UCLA School of Dentistry and UCLA Library. Marco holds a Bachelor of Applied Mathematics and a Bachelor of Statistics from California State University, Northridge.
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SpaceX
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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA. SpaceX believes a fully and rapidly reusable rocket is the pivotal breakthrough needed to substantially reduce the cost of space access. The majority of the launch cost comes from building the rocket, which historically has flown only once. Compare that to a commercial airliner – each new plane costs about the same as Falcon 9 but can fly multiple times per day and conduct tens of thousands of flights over its lifetime. Following the commercial model, a rapidly reusable space launch vehicle could reduce the cost of traveling to space by a hundredfold. While most rockets are designed to burn up on reentry, SpaceX rockets can not only withstand reentry but can also successfully land back on Earth and refly again. SpaceX’s family of Falcon launch vehicles are the first and only orbital class rockets capable of reflight. Depending on the performance required for the mission, Falcon lands on one of our autonomous spaceport droneships out on the ocean or one of our landing zones near our launch pads.