Brittany Zimmerman
M.S. Space Studies

Bioregenerative Physical-Chemical Life Support Systems for Human Spaceflight

Chief Executive Officer,

Chief of Innovation

Brittany Zimmerman is the CEO and Chief of Innovation at Yummet. Before Yummet, she served as Principal Investigator and Aerospace Systems Engineer developing life support systems for long-duration spaceflight and habitation. Brittany has spent 30 years working on expanding her breadth of skills to build a synergy of competencies to achieve her lifetime goal: organizational success through bettering the conditions of humanity.  She takes the old philosophy of leaving the world a better place than you found it to the next level. In her most recent of many ventures, Brittany is implementing her multidisciplinary expertise of space systems to simplify complexities and make life support technologies easily accessible and affordable for terrestrial humanity. For this and other projects, she is seeking partners and investors.

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To continually diversify her activities and skills, she has opened a new location to a 501(c)(3) where she acts as Board Member and Director of Operations for a nonprofit which ensures safety and education to cross-cultural youth in California and Arizona. Brittany is a member of the 20 Under 35 cohort of 2020 and received a Promise Award in that same year, signifying her place as one of 3 leaders of the 2020 cohort. 

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• >95% Proposal Selection - Exceeding $85 Million in Awards

• SSPI Promise Award Recipient

• SSPI 20 Under 35 Cohort

• Youngest NASA Principal Investigator

• Patents in Selection for Integration on the ISS

• Future Space Leader Awardee

• Analog Crew in Inflatable Lunar/Martian Habitat

• Crewmember for Mars Desert Research Station Mission 171