Joan Horvath is an American aeronautical engineer,

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, and entrepreneur. She worked at the

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for sixteen years, in the

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office and on the Magellan and

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flight projects. She served as CEO of the now-defunct Takeoff Technologies, and is a cofounder of a

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company, Nonscriptum LLC.

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