Space Conference Speaker

Sahda Haroon is an undergraduate researcher at the Warsinger Water Laboratory at Purdue University, working on hydrogen liquefaction for lunar settlements. As a senior in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, she also conducts research at Purdue’s Maurice J. Zucrow Laboratories on ammonia combustion for aviation gas turbine engines. She recently completed a co-op at Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) in Germany, where she worked in propulsion engineering for Helix—their staged-combustion rocket engines. Her work spans propulsion and energy systems for both aviation and space applications. At the age of 22, she is an Analog Astronaut, Citizen Scientist-Astronaut candidate, and one of the youngest technical divers in Sri Lanka. Sahda dreams of helping build the technologies that will enable human missions to Mars and hopes to be among the first people to walk on the Red Planet.