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Rob "Ranger" Watson

Bio

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/crobertwatson


Title: Executive Director of Innovation


Location: Orlando, FL


Favorite Quote:

“Space is for everybody. It’s not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That’s our new frontier out there, and it’s everybody’s business to know about space.”

—Christa McAuliffe


Languages:

English and Spanish


Skills:

  • Website Coordination
  • Digital Marketing
  • PR & Communications


Interests:

  • Aspiring Polymath
  • Science Fiction Writing
  • Disaster Cleanup Volunteer


Space Drive:

Ever since I can remember, I’ve been interested in being an astronaut or doing something related to space. My grandfather built parts for the lunar Ranger lander program. My father was an electronics engineer and my mother was a library director. So I had no lack of inspiration. I’m a Space Camp Alumni and played a small research role in a GAS payload that flew on STS-95 with John Glenn. I own a web and digital agency, volunteer as a web developer with MarsInitiative.org, am a member of The Inspired 24, and founded the Inspired 24 Innovation Center.

About Rob

2025

  • Attended the SpaceCom Expo 2025 in Orlando, FL
  • Attended the Analog Astronaut Conference 2025 in Tucson, AZ

2024

Participated in STAR.CREW training for the World's Biggest Analog

2023

Initiated the Inspired 24 Innovation Center

2022

  • Applied for an open position on the Space Camp Alumni Association Board
  • MarsInitiative.org - Volunteer in web development
  • Joined “The Inspired 24”

2021

  • Applied to Inspiration4 contest to be one of four citizen astronauts to orbit Earth on Crew Dragon
  • Applied to “Dear Moon” contest to be one of twelve citizen astronauts with Yusaku Maezawa when he flies on SpaceX Starship around the moon
  • Attended Crew-3 Launch at the Feel the Heat KSC Experience

2019

  • Joined “Space Hero” as a Space Hero Insider
  • Presented about careers in space to a classroom of 5th graders at
  • Maxey Elementary as an Orange County Public Schools ADDitions Volunteer

2018

February: Attended SpaceX Falcon Heavy Starman Test Flight

2017

Skydive at “Skydive Space Center” over Cape Canaveral from 18,000 feet, the

highest skydive in the world

2016

Visited Johnson Space Center with family

2010

Attended STS-132 Launch and visited Kennedy Space Center with family

1992

  • Attended Space Camp Level II and was awarded Best Experiment certificate
  • Joined the Get Away Special payload team at Utah State University in beginning research for a joint project with Bellarmine College to study hydrostatic pressures within a functioning model of the Jarvis artificial heart. The experiment was to learn more about how the human heart functions in microgravity. Participated as an operating theater spectator gathering research notes during an artificial heart transplant procedure

1989

Visited Kennedy Space Center with family

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