Laura Winterling

Laura Winterling’s background

Laura Winterling shares her unique and interesting career experiences in Human Space Flight at functions and events. She gives audiences exclusive insights in modern space flight ventures accompanied by her own personal experiences gathered around the globe at International Partner Sites like NASA in Houston and Roskosmos in Moscow, as well as Soyuz Rocket Launches from Baikonur, Kasachstan.

Laura has a MSc. in Physics from the University of Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany and a MSc. in Organisational Psychology from UCL, London. She has been an astronaut support officer and astronaut instructor at European Cargo Spaceship ATV, European Space Laboratory Columbus and European Astronaut Centre, Cologne for the European Space Agency.

Laura has been teaching spacecraft systems to international and European astronauts for over a decade. With a background in physics she became an Astronaut Instructor for the European Space Agency in the field of spacecraft systems and spacecraft sensors. As a member of two of ESAs main Astronaut training Teams she was responsible for the training of the dynamic phases of ESAs Cargo Vessel ATV and the Lift Support System of ESAs space laboratory Columbus.

The International Space Station (ISS) Program also gave her the chance of teaching flight controllers in various Mission Control Centers around the globe. She spent time in Toulouse, France, Moscow and Houston, was sitting in during real-time operations on board the ISS and observed 2 manned Sojuz launches in Kasachstan.

She has taught more than 80 international astronauts on space craft and station systems.

Laura completed her certifications for CRM (crew resource management) and the MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator). Laura’s role as a certified MBTI and CRM instructor is to shed light on how #humanfactors will bring your team to the next level.

She is the founder of Space Time Concepts GmbH, and with a love for human spaceflight she has now taken over part of the Event Management at the European Astronaut Centre, Cologne, Germany. With 10 years of work experience in the space business she is an accomplished motivational speaker, presenter and life coach.

Clients

Laura presents predominantly in German and English and can also speak Russian and Italian. She has presented and moderated for a variety of organisations including: spaceX, Talanx, Tesla, Allen Overy, Apleona, Ascon, DEVK, Dumont, expoAIR, H Hotels, IMEX, Post Bank Insurances, RWE and many more.