Aaron Yazzie (born 1986) is a Diné (Navajo) mechanical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

[2] Since joining JPL, Yazzie has been involved in recruiting other Native Americans to work at NASA.

[3] Yazzie has said that the surface of Mars reminds him of the landscape near his Tuba City birthplace.

[3][4] He is actively involved in outreach to Native students and attributes success in his career to the work ethic instilled in him by his Navajo upbringing.

[8][9] Yazzie has had a long involvement with the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES).