John R. Bucknell graduated from Cleveland State University in 1995 with a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering and the University of Michigan – Dearborn in 1999 with a master’s in systems engineering. He has worked in powertrain engineering at Chrysler and General Motors and rocket propulsion engineering at Space Exploration Technologies. He is currently Senior Propulsion Scientist at Divergent Technologies, Inc. John has fourteen US patents and has led functional teams that have won Ward’s Auto World “10 Best Engines” three times, and was the lead developer of the Raptor Full-Flow Staged Combustion rocket engine at SpaceX. Prior published technical work includes combined cycle nuclear thermal rockets, high efficiency/low operational cost internal combustion engines and two economic carbon-neutral synthetic fuel processes using solar and nuclear energy, respectively.