Garret Fitzpatrick
Explorer | Writer | Engineer | Innovator | Speaker
Welcome! I’m Garret.
I’m an explorer, writer, engineer, innovator, and public speaker. I’m passionate about discovering new worlds of all kinds and helping create a world full of wonder by bringing people and ideas together to explore, serve, create, and inspire.
Currently, I’m the Project Engineer for the next generation Event Horizon Telescope — a virtual, Earth-sized array made up of radio telescopes all over the world that are linked together to observe supermassive black holes. This array produced the first image of a black hole in 2019. Next up: black hole cinema!
Earlier in my career, I spent more than a decade at NASA as a Crew Survival Engineer and Systems Engineer getting people, experiments, and critical systems back and forth between Earth and space.
As a science and travel writer, I’ve been published in MIT Technology Review and Astrobiology Magazine. I’m actively seeking representation for my first book, Liberation of an American Rocket Scientist.
Whether it’s expanding humanity’s presence in space, developing systems to unlock the deepest mysteries of the universe, writing about the meaning of exploration, or pioneering new models of systems-thinking-driven innovation, I believe in living with purpose and integrity, servant leadership, and inspiring people to take on impossible challenges.
My Why: I live to Explore, Serve, Create, and Inspire. To explore new frontiers, ideas, experiences and challenges. To serve as the best father, husband, son, friend, and leader I can be. To create new things that bring wonder and joy into the world. And to inspire others to reach farther, dig deeper, and think bigger.
My Vision: To create a world full of wonder, where wonder is a commonplace part of the vast majority of people's lives, where people are inspired to think bigger, live more fully, more purposefully, and connect to something that's bigger than themselves.
My Mission: To commit to building that world using all of my skills and passions through leadership, writing, engineering, systems thinking, space exploration, travel, innovation, strategy, and entrepreneurship.