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Paragon Space Development Corporation

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm |Room D

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Jane Poynter is the President and co-founder of Paragon. She holds a patent for the Autonomous Biological System, a key payload life support technology that was used to support the life of aquatic animals in experiments that resulted in the first animals to complete multiple generations in space. Ms. Poynter has logged over 3 years of experiment time in space on the Shuttle, Mir, and ISS, with the longest experiment lasting 18 months on board ISS. She has also served as SPACEHAB’s Chief Scientist for its Ecosystem in Space experiment on the International Space Station, and three experiments with ants, bees and fish, which flew on STS-107, the Space Shuttle Columbia. In collaboration with MIT and Draper Laboratory, she developed design approaches and mass/cost analyses of bioregenerative life support systems for long duration space exploration.

Poynter was a member of the original team to live and work inside Biosphere 2 for the first two-year mission, for which she led the design and implementation of the Intensive Agriculture. She also led the project’s Biospheric Research and Development Center. She has published numerous papers on Biosphere 2 systems and the behavioral aspects of living and working in Isolated Confined Environments.