Golden Spike Team
Board Members
Mr. Gerry Griffin – Chairman of the Board, Apollo Flight Director, former Director of NASA Johnson Space Center, and former head of the Greater Houston Chamber of Commerce
Dr. Alan Stern – President and CEO, planetary scientist, former head of all NASA science missions, “Time Magazine 100″ honoree
Ms. Cindy Conrad – Treasurer, businesswoman and commercial space expert, formerly at NASA Headquarters Planetary Science Division and Exploration Systems Mission Directorate
Ms. Esther Dyson – NewSpace investor and venture capitalist
Mr. James R. French – propulsion and space systems expert
Mr. Doug Griffith – Board Secretary, aerospace attorney, safety/risk management expert, former U.S. Marine Corps aviator and Gulf War veteran
Mr. David Lackner – spacecraft systems engineer, former venture capitalist
Mr. Michel Loucks – expert in orbital mechanics and mission design
Mr. Taber MacCallum – life support system expert and space executive
Mr. Max Vozoff – business development expert and former program manager of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft development
Spaceflight, Scientific, and Creative Council
Mr. Jeff Ashby – former NASA space Shuttle commander, US Navy Captain and Gulf War veteran
Mr. Andy Chaikin – foremost leading space historian and author (“A Man on the Moon”)
Mr. Chuck Deiterich – aerospace engineer, former NASA flight controller, technical manager
Mr. Jeff Greason – aerospace engineer and space executive
Dr. Bill McKinnon – renowned planetary scientist
Board of Advisors
Mr. Conrad Anker – renowned mountaineer, outdoorsman, and author (“The Lost Explorer”)
Mr. Bobby Block – Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and communications expert
Mr. Michael Bostick – CEO of Walden Media (“Apollo 13″/”The Chronicles of Narnia”)
Dr. Jonathan Clark – former NASA Space Shuttle flight surgeon
Mrs. Nancy Conrad – education innovator, founder of The Conrad Foundation, and widow of Apollo 12 moonwalker, Pete Conrad
Dr. Duncan Copp -Award winning film and documentary writer, producer, and director.
Mr. Newt Gingrich – former U.S. Speaker of the House and U.S. presidential candidate; commercial space advocate
Mr. Wayne Hale – former chief of NASA’s Space Shuttle program
Mr. Homer Hickam – former NASA engineer, acclaimed author and screenwriter (“Rocket Boys”/”October Sky”/”Back to the Moon”)
Mr. Chris Kemp – former NASA Chief Information Officer, Silicon Valley internet entrepreneur
Dr. Stephen Mackwell – planetary scientist and Director, Lunar & Planetary Institute
Mr. Tod Mesirow – motion picture producer, co-founder of Five by Five Productions
Mr. Mike Okuda – Hollywood graphic designer and set designer (“Star Trek”)
Mr. Bill Richardson – former U.N. Ambassador, U.S. Secretary of Energy, Governor of New Mexico and U.S. presidential candidate; commercial space advocate
Mr. Robert Walker – former U.S. Congressman, chairman of the U.S. House Science Committee and chairman of the Commission on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Industry; commercial space advocate
Capt. James A. Lovell, USN, Ret. – former test pilot and NASA Apollo astronaut; first human to travel to the Moon twice, first human to fly in space four times, commander of Apollo 13