Board of Directors

Nick Orenstein is an engineer and entrepreneur. His career has focused on introducing technologies which can improve lives broadly around the world. Before moving to Los Angeles over 10 years ago, he led a startup which patented a medical device to improve women’s healthcare during pregnancy and then directed a non-profit’s project which used early mobile app software to simply visualize 200 years of global climate change data. 

 

Nick first joined Open Temple around 2016 when he lived in Venice. He is inspired to co-create Rabbi Lori’s vision of thoughtful Jewish life in the modern spiritual world.

 

Nick is currently Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of HStar Space Transport. HStar is building humanity’s spaceship, a heavy-class launch vehicle which will bring satellites, cargo, and passengers into earth orbit from spaceports around the world. For six years prior to HStar, Nick was among the team of engineers who designed, built, tested, and operated the first four missions of Crew Dragon at SpaceX. 

 

In addition to Open Temple, Nick has volunteered for two other non-profit boards: Upstart Productions, a black box theater in Dallas, TX, and the Global Space Industry Trade Association (GSITA), which advocates for under-represented communities in the space industry workforce.