Bill O’Hara

ENGINEERING CONSULTANT

Bill O’Hara provides architecture and systems concept development support. Bill specializes in the design and development of deep space and planetary surface habitats with over 25 years of experience in the human spaceflight industry on programs such as shuttle, ISS, Orion and others.

Bill holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering, an MS in Geophysics, and is currently a part-time PhD student at the University of North Dakota where he is developing a habitat architecture to enable humans to live on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Bill is a veteran human test subject and analog astronaut. He has been a crewmember at five different analogs, creating one of the most diverse, practical habitat backgrounds in the industry.

Bill is a father of four kids, and an avid hiker and backpacker in the Rocky Mountains near his home in Berthoud, Colorado.