Felix, Class of 2015
Mongtomery Bell Academy | Rhode Island School of Design
Space-Age Handwork
Felix has a vivid memory of his physics main lesson block in middle school at Linden. The room was completely blacked out, and students had to truly observe what happened when a pinhole of light was allowed in. Experiments like these gave him a deep appreciation of how the world works and a "visual demonstration and physical understanding" of deeper concepts.
After continuing art all through high school and falling more in love with physics, Felix chose the Rhode Island School of Design, where he discovered Industrial Design and RISD's connection with NASA. He interned at the Center for Design and Space Architecture and is now a Softgoods Engineering Technologist at NASA.
In his work, Felix blends his two loves of art and physics as part of the advanced suit team, designing and sewing the outermost layers of space suits. Recently he was given his own lab, which he will outfit and staff to work on space suits suitable for the moon and Mars. Some of his softgoods work will be heading to space in spring 2026 on the Artemis II mission, which will return people back around the moon for the first time in over 50 years and will be first to include a woman and a person of color.
Felix credits Linden for his love of learning and with teaching him how to learn. He values the “precision and technical learning skills” he gained from violin, and still delights in impressing his friends and colleagues with the juggling and stilt-walking skills he learned at Linden!
