Tim Bailey

As a boy in a small Georgia town, Tim Bailey explored his fascination with space through the pages of the Worldview Encyclopedias. He desperately wanted to go to Space Camp, but his family’s finances couldn’t stretch to send him. After high school, he headed to the Florida Space Coast for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and finally made it to Space Camp. As a Space Camp Florida counselor, he shared his passion for space with kids from all over the world, helping launch his own future in the process. After a couple years at Embry-Riddle, he switched from Engineering Physics to his true calling – space studies and communication. In 2010, he joined with Space Camp Hall of Famer George Whitesides and Space Camp alumna Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides to create Yuri’s Night, a global celebration of space exploration. He served as executive director of that organization with its myriad missions, including Mission AstroAccess to advance disability inclusion in space; the SpaceKind Foundation leadership training program; and Cosmic Odyssey, a scholarship program to send families affected by pediatric cancer to Space Camp. Bailey is now floating in microgravity as Inflight Manager for Zero-G, a company that supplies microgravity flights for astronaut training, scientific research, and public enjoyment.