SPEAKERS
The speakers posted here represent approximatly half of the actual group. Adding speakers to this grid is in process.
William H. Gerstenmaier
Associate Administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Directorate, NASA
Dr. Raymond Arvidson
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor, Washington University...
Jane Poynter
Chief Executive Officer - World View Enterprises...
Prof. Johann-Dietrich Wörner
Director General, European Space Agency (ESA)...
Dr. James S. Logan
Co-Founder, Space Enterprise Institute. Dr. Jim Logan held numerous positions in his twenty-year career at NASA including Chief of Flight Medicine and Chief of Medical Operations at NASA’s Johnson Space Center...
Thomas P. Stafford
Thomas P. Stafford flew on Gemini 6, the first space rendezvous mission, and Gemini 9; orbited the moon on Apollo 10, and commanded the American ship that linked in orbit with a Soviet craft during the Apollo-Soy...
MAC’s Old Team
Members of MAC’s Old Team under McDonnell Aircraft Company worked on the Mercury and Gemini spacecraft, which supported, developed and proved the methodology necessary for the Apollo Program to reach the Moon....
Eric Berger
The senior space editor at Ars Technica, covers space business, space policy, space technology and other related areas such as astronomy. In the very fast paced field he is covering, his frequent, accurate and d...
Lt. Gen. Steven L. Kwast
Lt. Gen. Steven L. Kwast is Commander and President, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. He provides full spectrum education, research, and outreach at every level through professional military educ...
Robert (Bob) Zubrin
Dr. Robert Zubrin is the founder and President of the Mars Society, as well as a member of the organization’s Board of Directors. Dr. Zubrin is also President of Pioneer Astronautics, an aerospace R&D compan...
John Quinn
John Quinn is a Controls Engineer turned trader and entrepreneur who enjoys leading and teaching others. Since “firing his boss” of 17 years to seek to develop submarine technologies (that micro electronics ...
Madhu Thangavelu
Madhu Thangavelu conducts the ASTE527 graduate Space Exploration Architectures Concept Synthesis Studio in the Department of Astronautical Engineering within the Viterbi School of Engineering, and he is also a g...
Loretta Whitesides
Loretta and her husband George are ‘Founder Astronauts’ with tickets for a sub-orbital spaceflight on Virgin Galactic’s Spaceship ‘Unity.’ Trained as an astrobiologist at Stanford and Caltech, Loretta has been...
Amy Shira Teitel
Amy Shira Teitel Amy Shira Teitel is a Canadian-American author, popular science writer, spaceflight historian, YouTuber, andpodcaster, best known for writing Breaking the Chains of Gravity (Bloomsbury 2015) an...
Dr. Andrew Aldrin
Associate Professor at Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) and Director of the Buzz Aldrin Space Institute Dr. Andrew Aldrin is currently an Associate Professor at Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) and Dir...
Brad Blair
New Space Analytics, LLC Brad Blair holds degrees in geology, mining engineering and mineral economics. His professional experience ranges from mineral exploration and engineering to space resource economics. He...
Howard Bloom
Founder/Chair – Space Development Steering Committee Howard Bloom has been called “next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein,[and] Freud,” by Britain’s Channel4 TV, “...
Jamie Guined
Founder/CEO, SeaSpace Exploration Society Jamie Guined is the Founder & Executive Director of the SeaSpace Exploration & Research Society, Inc. The mission of SeaSpace is to further the advancement of the human ...
Lt. Col Tommy Schilling
Lt Col Schilling is a graduate from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration and a Master’s in International Relations from Troy University. He is an Air Battle Manager with ov...
Marshall Eubanks
Recognitions include having an asteroid, (6696) Eubanks, named in his honor, and winning the U.S. Naval Observatory’s Newcomb Medal....
Pete Swan
Dr. Peter A. Swan is President of the International Space Elevator Consortium. As such, he leads a team who further the concept with incremental studies and yearly conferences. Over the last ten years he has pub...
Dr. Seth D. Potter
Seth D. Potter has worked extensively in the aerospace industry, where his experience has included space-based solar power, wireless power transmission, robotic satellite servicing, lunar and planetary mission d...
Charles Miller
Miller is President and owner of NexGen Space LLC, which provides consulting services to NASA, DARPA, USAF, and entrepreneurial companies at the intersection of civil space, commercial space, and public policy. ...
Rob Kelso
National Space Society Board of Directors Rob Kelso is a career civil servant, serving 37 years at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC), formerly holding a position as the NASA Shuttle Flight Director at NASA’s...
Natalie Batalha
Natalie Batalha is an astrophysicist at NASA Ames Research Center and the project scientist for NASA’s Kepler Mission. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of California (UC), Berkeley, a...
Charlie Sobeck
I joined the Kepler team in the spring of 2000. The team had just made the playoffs, if you will. It was one of three finalists from a group of a couple dozen that submitted proposals to become a full-fledged NA...
Mercury 6
Former Mercury Project engineers, clockwise from top left, Jerry Roberts, Norm Beckel, Dean Purdy, Ray Tucker, Bob Schepp and Earl Robb, in the Prologue Room in St. Louis. Norm Beckel: Norm spent four years in t...
Michael J. Mackowski
Michael J. Mackowski is an electrical systems engineer at Orbital ATK who has been in the spacecraft design and development business for nearly forty years. He has worked on such programs as Landsat 8, the Fermi...
Berok Khoshnevis
Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis is a Dean’s Professor of engineering at University of Southern California, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and a Member of the EU Academy of Sciences. Through his inventive...
Mike Snyder
Michael is Chief Engineer and co-founder of Made In Space, where he led the team that developed the first additive manufacturing capability in space. His professional resume includes developmental work on multip...
Vera Mulyani
Vera Mulyani is A lifetime innovative and visionary leader, with multidisciplinary skills in art, architecture and in business. Recognized as “Santa Monica Renaissance Woman”, Mulyani’s innovative visions a...
Morgan Arena Irons
Morgan Irons is a recent graduate of Duke University, having received a double major with honors in environmental science and biology, a chemistry minor, and a pre-medicine emphasis. Her research review on close...
Jude Currivan
Dr. Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist and author. She is a life-long researcher into the nature of reality, has a Masters Degree in Physics from Oxford University specializing in quantum...
William B. McKinnon
William B. McKinnon is a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and a Fellow of McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at ...
John Logsdon
John Logsdon is the founder and from 1987–2008 was the Director of the Space Policy Institute at The George Washington University. In 2003, Logsdon was a member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. He...
Bruce Pittman
Bruce Pittman is currently filling the role of Senior Vice President & Senior Operating Officer of the National Space Society. Bruce Pittman is the founder and president of Profit Engineering Technologies and is...
Greg Autry
Dr. Greg Autry is an educator, writer and technology entrepreneur. Dr. Autry researches entrepreneurship in context of commercial space at the University of Southern California. He served on the NASA Agency Revi...
Doug Plata
Dr. Plata is a physician and public health specialist in Loma Linda, CA. His undergraduate degree was in biophysics and he went on to complete his MD and MPH with specialty training in Family and Preventive Medi...
Henk Rogers
Henk Rogers is a Dutch born, Computer Game Designer / Entrepreneur. He is best known for traveling to the Soviet Union to secure the rights to Tetris, which he now controls. A near death experience enabled Henk ...
Peter Kokh
Peter Kokh is the longstanding editor of the Moon Miners’ Manifesto and presently serves as Secretary of the Moon Society. He is a past director of the National Space Society and is co-founded with Myles...
David G. Schrunk
David G. Schrunk, M.D. is President of the Quality of Laws Institute. The Quality of Laws institute is working to establish the science and engineering disciplines of laws (of government). Present activities inc...
Rob Mueller
Mr. Rob Mueller is a Senior Technologist for Advanced Projects Development at NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in the Exploration Research and Technology Programs Directorate. He is the co-founder of the NASA Swa...
Clive Neal
Clive R. Neal has been involved in the study of the Moon since 1986 using Apollo samples, lunar meteorites, as well as remotely sensed data from missions including and since Apollo. He has also served on mission...
Bradley Jolliff
Brad Jolliff is the Scott Rudolph Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. His research focus is on the Moon and Mars, the materials that make up their surfaces, and what ...
Dennis Wingo
Dennis Wingo is the author of the recently published book, “Moonrush: Improving Life on Earth with the Moon’s Resources.” He was a founder of Orbital Recovery Corporation and CEO/President of Skycorp, Inc. He is...
Ayşe Oren
Born in Ankara, Ayse Oren is an architect, designer, and sculptor. She develops projects focusing on electronics and design, positioning human and human life in the center. As an artist who was granted the Techn...
Pamela Gay
Dr. Pamela Gay is an astronomer, writer, and podcaster focused on using new media to engage people in science and technology. Her most well known project may be Astronomy Cast, a podcast she co-hosts with Fraser...
Kelly C. Smith
Kelly Smith is a philosopher of science also trained as an evolutionary biologist. He holds appointments in Philosophy & Religion as well as Biological Sciences at Clemson University. He is also a Lemon fellow o...
William P. Schonberg
Dr. William P. Schonberg has over 30 years experience in shock physics and spacecraft protection. His research is dedicated to improving the safety of long-duration spacecraft and of personnel involved in space ...
Christopher Stone
Christopher Stone is an American space policy and strategic analyst. He has served on the staffs of two United States Senators, seven years in the Pentagon as well as over a decade in current space operations fo...
Ben Bussey
Ben Bussey is a planetary scientist who is currently the Chief Exploration Scientist in NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate. He earned a BA in Physics from Oxford University and a Ph.D....
Meagan Crawford
Meagan is also a Principal of Ramsey Financial, a Houston-based family office where she investigates cutting-edge business sectors, such as NewSpace, as part of Ramsey’s long-term investment initiatives. Since...
Keegan Kirkpatrick
Keegan is the CEO and founder of RedWorks, a construction machinery startup in Lancaster, California. A graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, before turning entrepreneur he worked as an engineer at M...
Richard Witherspoon
Richard Witherspoon is a Mission Operations Engineer at Lockheed Martin for the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission. Previously, Richard was the lead Electrical Test Conductor for OSIRIS-Rex overseeing...
Joel Sercel
Joel C. Sercel, PhD is the founder of TransAstra Corporation. TransAstra is developing the technologies and vehicles to harvest and use asteroid and lunar propellant to make NASA’s vision of human exploration...
Dr. Linda Godwin
Dr. Linda M. Godwin was born and raised in Missouri and graduated from high school in Jackson, Missouri. She received a bachelor of science degree in mathematics and physics from Southeast Missouri State, and a ...
Dr. Pascal Lee
Dr. Pascal Lee is chairman of the Mars Institute, senior planetary scientist at the SETI Institute, and director of the NASA Haughton-Mars Project on Devon Island in the Arctic. He is based at NASA Ames Research...
Michael Laine
Michael Laine has been involved with Space Elevator research since 2001 – the definitive NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts study. At the conclusion, Laine used the accumulated knowledge to form LiftPort Gro...
Tom Olson
For over three decades, Mr. Olson has been a business systems engineer and analyst in the Communications, Aerospace, and Publishing sectors. In addition, he has worked in analysis and operations roles in the Fin...
Gary Bickford
Gary Bickford (CTO) has combined long term professional involvement in advanced technology startup companies and applied research institutions with a lifelong interest in space and belief in the future of humans...
Jay Wittner
Jay Wittner (CEO) serves as President of Kickstarter Coaching and is a Founding Partner of the Space Finance Group and Integrated Space Analytics. He has been a member of the National Space Society and other spa...
Michael Mealling
Michael joined the Foundation in 2017 as Chief Executive Officer. Human expansion into the solar system has been his personal mission since he was Chairman of the Moon Society in 2004 and co-founder of Masten ...
Steven G. Jorgenson
Steven G. Jorgenson (CFO) is co-founder and managing member of the Viridian Fund, where he has been the Portfolio Manager since its inception. Prior to his role at Viridian, Steven was Portfolio Manager for Guar...
Ron Jones
Ron Jones (Space Architect) is best known in the space community as the developer of the original Integrated Space Plan in the late 1980s. He is an aerospace professional with 25 years of experience primarily at...