Lisa Young has served as objects conservator at the National Air and Space Museum since 2009. She earned her B.Sc. (Honors) in conservation at the University of Wales, Cardiff. She has worked at NASM since 1997, where she has conducted primary research on the degradation and preservation of spacesuits and related materials. From 1999 to 2006 she served as the project conservator to the Save America’s Treasures Project- “Saving Threatened Artifacts from the Apollo Era”. Under this project she consulted on the conservation of the Saturn V rocket assembly in Houston, Texas and performed a technical study and condition survey on over 200 spacesuits in the National collection. She has treated a variety of aerospace materials, and as one of the Safety officers for the conservation laboratory at NASM she helps to oversee the identification, testing and treatment of hazmat materials in the collection. She has written and published articles and technical information on the conservation of spacesuits and related materials, and has given numerous presentations at professional meetings as well as to school groups and the public. In 2015, she collaborated with NASM colleagues and participated in the first Smithsonian Kickstarter project and raised over $750,000 to conserve, display and digitize Neil Armstrong's spacesuit for the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 in 2019. She served as President of the Washington Conservation Guild from 2005-2007. She is Fellow of AIC (2016) and IIC (2022) and is currently a PhD candidate at Durham University.