Brett Rocket Scientist


About Brett Rocket Scientist

Brett creates artful work in engineering, ideas, and innovation. In addition to 2 degrees, 3 patents, and over 15 years experience in aerospace engineering, he is the author of several books to foster STEM careers. He volunteers his time and skills as an officer with professional societies.

Finding a reason for a STEM banquet

This past week I went to a local elementary school for their Career Day.  The fifth graders had a few professionals from the area come in and spend 20 minutes with each class to talk about their careers and answer questions with the kids.  I talked about aerospace engineering and rocket science.  I showed a […]

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Aerospace jobs in San Diego appear to have serious lift

This May 1st, 2015 article from The San Diego Union-Tribune describes several positive forces and trends for aerospace jobs in the San Diego, California metro area: Aerospace makes comeback in San Diego Southern California has one of the most exciting and remarkable histories when it comes to aerospace and aviation.  Maybe that is the place […]


Happy Star Wars Day! May the 4th be with you!

It’s a day to celebrate the inspiration and joy that the Star Wars saga has brought into our culture.  George Lucas really made an epic impact. along with everyone else involved in the Star Wars movies. I found a few more good ways to celebrate than by just watching a Star Wars movie today.  Click […]

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Blue Origin Launch is first public success

There is no such thing as an overnight success in rocket science.  But the Blue Origin news about their successful rocket launch on April 29th, 2015 caught a lot of people by surprise. Here is a video from the company that celebrates the first launch of the Blue Origin New Shepard spacecraft: Here is the […]


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Afterschool STEM programs boost results including NASAs Summer of Innovation program

Thanks to a very powerful (and automatic) Google Alert that I set up, I found out about more powerful after school STEM programs from Ellen Lettvin in the US Department of Education: Engagement, Creativity and Inspiration Found in New Afterschool STEM Programs. One program mentioned here that you definitely should check out is the NASA […]


Let the social media sharing begin! 4

Have you ever come to this site, read a blog post or liked a picture, and wished you had a social network button to quickly and easily pass it along? Now you do! Here are the current choices.  This is your chance to tell me in a comment below if I’m missing one that you […]

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Get more rocket science from the JPL NASA Dawn Blog 2

There is another rocket science blog out there on the leading edge of cyberspace…and it’s transmitting the progress of the Dawn spacecraft which recently entered into orbit around Ceres!   Marc Rayman, the Dawn chief engineer and mission director at JPL, is the author of the blog. If you didn’t know, Ceres is a dwarf […]


Visit the Outbound Team and Blog for more insights and inspiration

Whenever I find another person or group who shares my mission to help people succeed with an aerospace career or mission, I love to promote them here.  That’s what I’ll do now with the Outbound team. Here is how the Outbound group describes themselves and their purpose, according to their website: We are an independent […]

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Presenting at 1 Million Cups in San Antonio will help you and me

Earlier today I had the wonderful and valuable opportunity to be a presenter at the 1 Million Cups event in San Antonio, Texas: If you aren’t familiar with it, 1 Million Cups (1MC) is a program established by the Kauffman Foundation to build communities by creating a weekly event and forum for entrepreneurs to give […]