Michael Sheehan is a native of south Florida and a graduate of Florida State University. He holds his BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering through the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.
While a graduate student at FSU, he worked in the Fluid Mechanics Research Laboratory under the expert tutelage of Dr. Farrukh Alvi. After graduation in 2007 he moved to Los Angeles to join Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and has spent the past 10 years in the launch operations department.