Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba

Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba is an aerospace engineer, entrepreneur, and Project PoSSUM Scientist-Astronaut Candidate Program graduate. She is the co-founder, CEO, and chairwoman of Vicillion, a global infrastructure development firm.

Education
While pursuing her bachelor's in Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Kanjumba enrolled at the Project Polar Suborbital Science in the Upper Mesosphere (PoSSUM) Academy, where she became the first Kenyan-born to graduate from the program.

Career
During her master's studies, Kanjumba started Vicillion with two other people, which at the time was a technology research & development lab. But later developed into a global infrastructure development firm where their flagship project currently is developing and operating the world's first equatorial commercially operated spaceport: the Omega Spaceport. The Omega Spaceport will be equipped for the global space sector for geosynchronous and geostationary launches.

The Omega Spaceport will be equipped for the global space sector for geosynchronous and geostationary launches. The Omega Space Center (OSC) will be a multifaceted project which involves two primary business segments: a multi-user spaceport and facilitating different space ventures including, but not limited to, space tourism, asteroid mining, and human exploration beyond Earth's atmosphere. It is intended to have a global impact, servicing the commercial and governmental space sectors.