Paul Wizikowski

As a strategic space storyteller, Paul Wizikowski has helped shape the tone of human and scientific spaceflight missions to Low Earth Orbit, the Moon, and Mars. As a 20-year veteran of advertising agency campaigns for brands around the world, in 2019, Wizikowski joined the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, serving as an advisor to NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. Charged with developing and leading the narrative tone for the first crewed missions of NASA’s commercial crew program, the development of the Artemis campaign, and the launch of the Mars2020 Perseverance mission, Wizikowski twice earned NASA’s Exceptional Achievement medal. In 2021, Wizikowski formed a boutique communications production company, Vytal Space, focused on supporting the growing commercial endeavors of spaceflight. For Felix & Paul Studios and META, he led an international stereoscopic 360° camera team to the highlands of Iceland and the deserts of Arizona, documenting NASA’s geological expedition analogs for the ongoing immersive narrative program ‘Space Explorers’. Also for Felix & Paul Studios, in 2022, Wizikowski wrote and directed the first-of-its-kind 8K 360° immersive livestream. This program, Artemis Ascending, featured the launch of Artemis I from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with special guests NASA astronaut Christina Koch, CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen and ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano. Streamed live around the world to planetariums, domes, and through META’s Oculus headsets, this program expanded the ways in which viewers shared in the experience of the inaugural Artemis launch! Wizikowski has served as an executive producer of mission coverage and creative director for mission-related narrative and media content for all of Axiom Space’s missions to the International Space Station; namely Ax-1, Ax-2 and Ax-3. Presently, Wizikowski continues to serve as a creative consultant, writer and director on contract with NASA’s Artemis programs to ensure that an authentic and inspired telling of the Artemis campaign is shared with the world. Paul Wizikowski is a husband and father of two based in Charlotte, NC.