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Apr 7, 2025 33 min

Michael "Orbit" Nayak

from The Grace in Space Podcast

Michael “Orbit” Nayak is a science-fiction author, and a Program Manager with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He has worked as a space shuttle engineer; flight director for multiple experimental spacecraft; a skydiving instructor; a planetary scientist at NASA Ames; research section chief for the DoD’s largest telescope; instructor flight test engineer and instructor pilot. He has flown an X-plane, worked as a Space Shuttle engineer, deployed to the South Pole as a U.S. Antarctic Program principal investigator, was a semi-finalist to be a NASA astronaut, and is a US Air Force Test Pilot School graduate with 1,000+ hours of flight time in 40+ aircraft. His debut sci-fi novel, “Symbiote”, is out now, and available from Penguin Random House here. Follow Michael (Mikey) Nayak on X @mikeynayak / LinkedIn @michael-nayak / join his newsletter at MichaelNayak.com.

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