Mehak Sarang

Mehak Sarang, based in Denver, CO, is the Director of Industry Integration at the Open Lunar Foundation, where she works to advance Open Lunar's mission by fostering collaboration between industry, government, and international partners.

Previously, she was the Payloads Manager at ispace U.S., collaborating with NASA through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program to deliver scientific payloads to the lunar surface. Prior to that, she led lunar exploration projects at the MIT Media Lab's Space Exploration Initiative in Cambridge, MA. Her research on the business and economics of space exploration at Harvard Business School with Professor Matthew Weinzierl led to the inaugural offering of the "Business of Space" course at HBS.

Mehak is dedicated to fostering global cooperation and innovation to enable a sustainable lunar future. She holds a BA in Physics from Wellesley College.