Cody Paige

Cody Paige is the director of the Space Exploration Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, a team of students, faculty and staff building and flying advanced technology and innovative ideas for space exploration. From testing and prototyping research in the lab and on field expeditions in extreme environments, to testing in altered gravity on parabolic and suborbital flights in micro-, lunar, and Martian-gravity, the lab matures research for the realization of space exploration. Paige's Ph.D. project - a 3D camera for lunar surface exploration - will be landing near the lunar south pole in 2025 as part of MIT's return to the moon. Paige has conducted field work in the Arctic, the southwestern deserts of the United States, the Canary Islands, and will be working in Antarctica in late 2024.
Paige began at MIT as a Fulbright Scholar and completed her Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics in 2023. Her research focused on enabling a permanent human presence on the moon through the development of wearable radiation shielding material and a virtual reality platform for geological surface exploration of the moon and Mars. Paige is also completing a Ph.D. in geology, specifically quaternary geochronology. She completed her Master of Applied Science in aerospace engineering at the University of Toronto and her Bachelor of Applied Science in engineering physics from Queen’s University. Paige holds her private pilot license in Canada, and is an avid rock climber, hiker and scuba diver.