# Tom Markusic: person

Canonical ID: `07d81cf4-3268-4c81-9252-43d200060af7`

Co-founder and former CEO of Firefly Aerospace (2014-2022); now board member and Chief Technical Advisor. PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton. Former senior engineer at NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic. Led development of the Alpha rocket and Blue Ghost lunar lander. Blue Ghost M1 made the first successful commercial soft-landing on the Moon on March 2, 2025.

- **Nationality:** American
- **Verification posture:** verified

## Current roles (1)

- [Firefly Aerospace](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/firefly-aerospace.md) Co-founder, former CEO; Board Member & Chief Technical Advisor since 2014-03-01 (secondary-verified)

## Foundings (1)

- [Firefly Aerospace](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/firefly-aerospace.md) founded 2014-03-01 (cofounder)

## Sources (1)

1. https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/16/firefly-aerospace-co-founder-tom-markusic-is-out-as-ceo/


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