Charles Miller
Education
Caltech
, 1981-01-01 - 1985-01-01
California State University, Chico
BS, Business Administration/Finance 1985-01-01 - 1988-01-01Work Experience
NexGen Space LLC
Current
NexGen Space LLC
Lynk
Current
Lynk
Trump-Pence Transition Team for NASA
2016-12-01 - 2017-01-01
Trump-Pence Transition Team for NASA
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
2009-02-01 - 2012-01-01
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NanoRacks LLC
2006-06-01 - 2009-02-01
NanoRacks LLC
Space Policy Consulting, Inc.
2004-01-01 - 2009-02-01
Space Policy Consulting, Inc.
Constellation Services International, Inc.
1998-10-01 - 2009-02-01
Constellation Services International, Inc.
ProSpace
1996-01-01 - 1999-01-01
ProSpace
Native American Strategy & Planning Services
1990-01-01 - 1998-08-01
Native American Strategy & Planning Services
Skills
Summary
Charles Miller has over 35 years experience in commercial space. Most recently, Miller served as co-founding CEO of Lynk Global, Inc. (Lynk) the creator of satellite-direct-to-standard-phone (sat2phone) that has become the hottest category in the satellite industry. Miller's prior startup was Nanoracks LLC, which delivered more than 700 payloads to date to the International Space Station (ISS) and was sold to Voyager Space in 2021. Miller led the "Fast Space" study for the USAF in 2016 that led to the creation of the Space Development Agency, which has a 5-year budget of over $25 billion. Miller led the "Evolvable Lunar Architecture" study for NASA, that recommended that NASA adopt commercial partnerships for a human return to the Moon. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine adopted this recommendation leading to a $2.9B lunar lander contract with SpaceX and a $3.4B lunar lander contract with Blue Origin. Miller was the Founder of ProSpace in 1996, which was known as "The Citizens' Space Lobby". ProSpace organized and led a series of successful national campaigns to change national space policy and pass critical enabling commercial space legislation. This included passage of the Commercial Space Act of 1998, which required NASA to purchase *commercial* space station cargo delivery services. A decade later, this law resulted in NASA signing a $1.6B contract with SpaceX for ISS cargo delivery. The ISS commercial cargo program led to the creation of NASA's Commercial Crew program and contracts for both SpaceX's Crewed Dragon and Boeing's Starliner.
