Lauren Parker

Lauren Parker currently serves as the Lead Spacecraft Systems Engineer at Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, since June 2021. Prior experience includes roles as a Spacecraft Systems Engineer at Millennium Space Systems and a Systems Engineer Co-op at Sierra Nevada Corporation from January 2020 to May 2021. Additional experience includes positions as a Student Assistant at the Center for Geospatial Intelligence and a NASA-Missouri Space Grant Research Intern at the University of Missouri College of Engineering. Previous internships comprise a Process Engineer Intern role at Textron Aviation and an Engineering Co-op position at Evenflo Company, Inc. Lauren Parker holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia and is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Space Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, expected to complete in May 2026.