Location | Mission Briefing Center
From September 15 through October 15, Hispanic Heritage Month is recognized in the United States. Space Center Houston is celebrating the historical and cultural contributions of Hispanic innovators to the U.S. spaceflight program with a month-long speaker series! Hear from these innovative aerospace-industry professionals as their work charts the future of human spaceflight. These presentations are included with general admission.
Elizabeth Romero
2025 Astronaut Scholar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Elizabeth Romero is a senior aerospace engineering student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and has a career goal to get humans on Mars. At school, she is a volunteer emergency medical technician (EMT), proposed Moon and Mars mission concepts, and has designed, built, and tested both rockets and medical devices. Her medical devices have been used in aerial medical evacuation research with the US Air Force Test Pilot School, and for countermeasure studies to better understand impacts of different gravity environments on physiology. Outside of school, Elizabeth has worked at SpaceX, training astronauts, engineering improvements to the capsule simulator, and directed human-in-the-loop testing. Elizabeth is passionate about STEM outreach – she has created free programs with Rocket Team and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE-MIT), and for high school students abroad. In the past, she was a martial arts instructor and promoted anti-bullying initiatives at local elementary and middle schools.
