Lauren Ogren is a Human Factors Engineer who resides in Rhode Island. She has 18 years experience in designing systems first for submarines in the Navy and now for command and control systems in the Air Force. Her love of space exploration started at a young age and continues to this day. She is a backyard telescope enthusiast and loves to find new things to see in the night sky. Her secret hobby is collecting all of the NASA and space-related interlocking plastic brick sets to display in her home.