Bio

Inducted to the Hall of Fame in 2023

Dallas Bienhoff is currently the Space Systems Architect at Off-World, Inc. where he is responsible for ensuring their space concepts have commonality, are synergistic and modular, whether they are surface or free-flying systems. He also leads their cislunar transportation development efforts. Mr. Bienhoff also leads the Moon Village Association’s Lunar Economics and Commercial Working Group’s Earth to Moon Transportation Market Team and is co-chair for the AIAA Cislunar Ecosystem Task Force’s Enterprise Architecture Working Group.

Prior to joining OffWorld, Dallas founded Cislunar Space Development Company, where he defined and promoted a reusable space-based cislunar transportation architecture. CSDC’s architecture included space tugs to move payloads from LEO to GTO, GEO and EML1 destinations, a Moon shuttle, and water to LOx/LH propellant depots in LEO and at EML1.

Mr. Bienhoff retired from Boeing as their Space Architect and In-Space and Surface Systems Manager responsible for capturing civil and commercial Space development and science mission spacecraft projects. In that role, he focused on new business opportunities in support of NASA Human Exploration Missions, the entrepreneurial space community and JPL science missions.

Dallas also worked for Rockwell International, The Aerospace Corporation, Rocketdyne, and Martin Marietta. Over the years, he led contract and IRAD studies on Cryogenic Propellant Storage and Transfer Technology Demonstration Mission Concepts, Minimum Functionality (lunar) Habitation Element, reusable cislunar transportation architecture, propellant depots, space solar power, exploration architectures, and launch system trade studies. Mr. Bienhoff was also a contributor to the National Security Space Office’s Space-Based Solar Power Study in 2007. During his career, Dallas led Rockwell’s X-33 SSTO and X-38 Crew Return Vehicle technical proposals, was co-lead with NASA for the ISS FGB element, led and participated in several space transportation and exploration architecture studies, oversaw Vandenberg Air Force Base Shuttle facilities development, evaluated propulsion system concepts and their failures, was a design and test engineer on the Space Shuttle Main Engine Development Program, and designed changes to the Titan III C payload interface.

Mr. Bienhoff holds a Master of Science – Engineering from California State University – Northridge (1985) and graduated from Florida Institute of Technology in 1974 with a Bachelor of Science – Mechanical Engineering.

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