VIP Speakers and Attendees

Confirmed Featured Speakers and VIPs

Senator John H. Glenn
Member of NASA's "Mercury Seven" astronauts, Mercury 6 and Space Shuttle Astronaut; NSS Board of Governors. (Bio)

Commander Scott Carpenter
Member of NASA's "Mercury Seven" astronauts, Mercury 7 Astronaut. (Bio)

Charles F. Bolden
Administrator, NASA (Bio)

Lori B. Garver
Deputy Administrator, NASA (Bio)

Mark Sirangelo
Chairman, Sierra Nevada Corporation's Space Systems Board (Bio)

Eric Anderson
Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Planetary Resources (Bio)

Michael Lopez-Alegria
President, Commercial Spaceflight Federation (Bio)

Jeff E. Greason
CEO and Co-Founder, XCOR Aerospace (Bio)

Andrew Nelson
Chief Operating Officer, XCOR Aerospace (Bio)

Chris Lewicki
President and Chief Engineer, Planetary Resources (Bio)

Rick Tumlinson
Founder of The EarthLight Institute (Bio)

Hugh Downs
Chairman, NSS Board of Governors; broadcaster, television host, producer, and author (Bio)

Brian Duffy
Vice President and JSC Program Manager, Space Launch Systems, ATK Aerospace Group (Bio)

Alexandra Hall
Senior Director, Google Lunar X PRIZE (Bio)

Tom Shelley
Tom Shelley, President, Space Adventures, Ltd. (Bio)

Hitoshi Kuninaka
Program Director, JSPEC (Lunar Planetary Program Group)/JAXA (Bio)

Amaresh Kollipara
Principal, Space Angels Network (Bio)

Steve Cook
Director of Space Technologies, Dynetics (Bio)

Tim Pickens
Commercial Space Advisor / Chief Propulsion Engineer, Dynetics (Bio)

Todd May
Program Manager, Space Launch System, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Garry Lyles
Chief Engineer, NASA Space Launch System, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Michael K. Simpson
Executive Director, Secure World Foundation; NSS Board of Governors (Bio)

Jeanne DiFrancesco
Principal, ProOrbis, LLC (Bio)

Richard Zurek
Project Scientist, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA JPL (Bio)

Robert Zubrin
Founder and President, Mars Society

Buzz Aldrin
Apollo 11 Astronaut, Author, and Founder, ShareSpace Foundation; NSS Board of Governors (Bio)

Arthur Dula
Founder, CEO, Excalibur Almaz; NSS Board of Governors (Bio)

Lon Levin
President, SkySevenVentures; Co-founder, XM Satellite Radio; NSS Board of Governors (Bio)

Frederick I. Ordway, III
Space pioneer and author; NSS Board of Governors (Bio)

Robert W. Farquhar
Executive for Space Exploration at KinetX, Inc.

Scott Pace
Director, Space Policy Institute, The George Washington University; NSS Board of Governors (Bio)

Ben Bova
Science Fiction Author and Editor; NSS Board of Governors (Bio)

Ken Money
President, National Space Society. Former Canadian astronaut; NSS Board of Governors (Bio)

Anthony Tether
Member, SSCI Scientific Advisory Board; Former Director of DARPA; NSS Board of Governors (Bio)

Peter Garretson
Former Chief of Future Science and Technology Exploration for Headquarters, USAF; NSS Board of Directors (Bio)

George T. Whitesides
CEO and President, Virgin Galactic [Invited] (Bio)

Paul Damphousse
Executive Director, National Space Society (Bio)

Richard Phillips
Phillips and Company

Natasha Vita-More
Chairman of Humanity+. Advocate of human enhancment and radical life extension. (Bio)

Seth Potter
Associate Technical Fellow, Boeing

Matt Duggan
Manager, ISS Systems Integration, Boeing (Bio)

Gary Barnhard
President and CEO, Xtraordinary Innovative Space Partnerships, Inc. (XISP-Inc); NSS Vice President at Large, NSS BoD exOfficio, NSS CEC/CEO & ED emeritus

Bruce Pittman
Director, Flight Projects and Chief System Engineer, NASA Space Portal

Paul Werbos
Partner, IntControl LLC.

John Garred
Attorney, Tucker Ellis and West, LLP

Dennis Wingo
CEO, Skycorp Inc.

Sean Connaughton
Secretary of Transportation, Commonwealth of Virginia

Jim Muncy
Government Relations Consultant at XCOR Aerospace; Founder, PoliSpace and Space Frontier Foundation

Speakers and program subject to change.