SPACE SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS

Mike Gold

Mike Gold

President
Redwire Space

As President of Redwire’s space business segment, Mr. Gold is responsible for all of the company’s activities in eight facilities across the U.S. and Europe, including the production of solar arrays; microgravity R&D and Manufacturing; docking and berthing systems, onboard computers and a variety of avionics products; Very Low Earth Orbit and LEO spacecraft; digital engineering; and structures, mechanisms, and robotics.

Prior to joining Redwire, Mr. Gold was NASA’s Associate Administrator for Space Policy and Partnerships, Acting Associate Administrator for the Office of International and Interagency Relations, and Senior Advisor to the Administrator for International and Legal Affairs.  At NASA, Mr. Gold led the development and implementation of the Artemis Accords, which establish norms of behavior to ensure a peaceful and prosperous future in space for all of humanity.  Mr. Gold also successfully led the negotiations to develop and execute the binding agreements for the lunar Gateway, the development and implementation of the first lunar resource purchase by NASA, and reforming planetary protection regulations.  Due to this trailblazing policy work, Mr. Gold was awarded NASA’s Outstanding Leadership Medal in 2021, the International Astronautical Federation’s prestigious Excellence in International Cooperation Award in 2024, and an Aviation Week Laureate Award in 2025.

Before joining NASA, Mr. Gold was Vice President of Civil Space at Maxar Technologies and General Counsel for the company’s legacy Radiant Solutions business unit.  Additionally, Mr. Gold spent thirteen years at Bigelow Aerospace, where he established the company’s Washington office, oversaw the launches of the Genesis 1 and 2 spacecraft, and was a recipient of a NASA Group Achievement award for the development and deployment of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module onto the International Space Station.

Mr. Gold currently serves on the Executive Board of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation and has previously served as the Boards’ Vice Chair and Treasurer.  Additionally, in 2022, Mr. Gold was appointed by the NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate to serve on the Agency’s Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Independent Study Team which was subsequently given the NASA Silver Group Achievement Award for their collective efforts to advance the understanding of this phenomena.  Moreover, Mr. Gold was appointed by two U.S. Secretary of Transportations to Chair the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee from 2012 – 2019, and was appointed by the NASA Administrator to serve on the NASA Advisory Council and chair its Regulatory and Policy Committee in 2018.

Mr. Gold has authored numerous law review articles and editorials addressing commercial space issues.  He has also testified on several occasions before the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate as an expert in commercial space, space law and policy, and UAP.

Mr. Gold received a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School where he founded and led the Journal of Constitutional Law.

Related Sessions

Building Beyond Earth: Outfitting the Next Generation of Commercial Space Stations

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

2:15 pm - 3:00 pm

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