(Twitter) (National Space Society of North Texas) 

 Ken Ruffin, a former career environmental engineer and the ongoing president of the National Space Society of North Texas (NSS-NT), is transitioning into a space industry career by leveraging his aerospace engineering undergraduate education and his extensive public speaking experience. Ken has spoken to over 200 audiences in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Metroplex, Texas, USA, and he has been interviewed dozens of times by DFW-area TV news stations, all regarding the present and future of space travel. Ken has been pursuing contracts to conduct public outreach directly with companies in the commercial spaceflight industry, in order to engage and inform audiences of all ages at museums, planetariums, nonprofit organization meetings, libraries, and more, about the importance of those companies' missions.