Kamal Ghaffarian

About Me

Kamal "Kam" Ghaffarian is a serial entrepreneur who has started companies in nuclear energy, lunar landers and space stations. He founded small modular nuclear reactor manufacturer X-Energy in 2009; the firm is developing a reactor for a Dow chemicals plant in Texas. In 2015, he cofounded Intuitive Machines, which makes moon landers. The company listed on the Nasdaq through a blank check company in February 2023. Axiom Space, which he cofounded in 2016, is developing the world's first commercial space station, with a planned launch date of 2031. He sold his first company SGT--which he cofounded in 1994 and became NASA's second-largest engineering services provider--to KBR for $355 million in 2018. In February 2024, Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lunar lander completed the first American mission to the moon since 1972.