Aisha Bowe

Aisha Bowe is a Bahamian American aerospace engineer, entrepreneur and advocate for science and engineering education. She earned a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering in 2008 and a master's degree in space systems engineering in 2009, both from the University of Michigan, where a professor encouraged her to pursue a career at NASA. At the NASA Ames Research Center she worked in flight trajectory dynamics and controls and on algorithms supporting air traffic management, and she received a National Society of Black Engineers award in 2012 for a paper on a fuel efficient aircraft maneuver. She later founded the technology services company STEMBoard and the education technology company LINGO, which makes project-based learning kits. In April 2025 she flew on the Blue Origin NS-31 suborbital mission as science payload operator for plant biology experiments run with NASA-affiliated research institutes.