Petr Boháček is a space technology specialist at the HiLASE Center at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He also works at TRL Space, where he is the architect of the LUGO mission to promote lunar settlement and the use of local resources, and an analyst for the Association for International Affairs, focusing on transatlantic relations, space activities, and U.S. policy. He is the author of numerous technical texts on space exploration and its social, political and technological challenges.