Martine Rothblatt is the Chairman & CEO of United Therapeutics Corporation, a biotechnology company she founded to save the life of one of her daughters from a rare disease, after having created and led as Chairman & CEO Sirius XM Satellite Radio. She was previously responsible for obtaining regulatory approval and/or launching several other satellite communications systems, including Geostar, PanAmSat and WorldSpace. She is also a designer and/or funder of several currently flying, manned, electric-powered vertical aircraft, and she holds the Guinness World Record for longest flight in an electric-powered helicopter. She has published books on satellite navigation, gender freedom, geopolitics, gene editing and cyber-consciousness, and she produced the film version of Ray Kurzweil’s best-selling book, The Singularity Is Near.
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Jared Isaacman
Mission Commander Polaris Dawn & Inspiration4
Stevan Akerley
Space Ambassadors Program Director National Space Society
Gary Barnhard
President & CEO, Xtraordinary Innovative Space Partnerships, Inc
Dr. Sherry Bell
Dean of Psychology, Kepler Space University
Burt Dicht
National Space Society Director of Membership
Chris Ferguson
Former NASA & Boeing Astronaut
William W. “Bill” Gardiner
Laboratory Director, Analytech Division of Laboratory Consulting Sources, Inc.
Robert "Hoot" Gibson
Former NASA Chief Astronaut
Michelle Hanlon
Executive Director, Center for Air and Space Law, University of Mississippi
Fredrick Jenet
National Space Society Board of Directors
Robert Katz
CEO and Executive Director of the World Innovation Network
Dr. Pascal Lee
Co-founder and Chairman, Mars Institute
Tariq Malik
Editor-in-Chief, Space.com
Alla Malko, PhD
NSS Awards Committee
John Mankins
President, Mankins Space Technology
Cliff McMurray
Freelance Writer
Bryce Meyer
NSS Space Ambassador, Space Farms, St Louis Space Frontier
Christian B. Meza
CEO and Director of Exothermic Films
Thomas Andrew Olson
Board Chair, Center for Space Commerce and Finance
Haroon Oqab
Co-Founder and President, Kepler Space University
Dr. Shawna Pandya
Director of Medical Research Orbital Assembly Corporation
Dr. Peter A. Swan
Chief Architect, International Space Elevator Consortium
Phil Swan
Director of Infrastructure, The Atlantis Project
Madhu Thangavelu
Department of Astronautical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
Bryan Versteeg
Conceptual Designer, Spacehabs.com
Nancy C. Wolfson
The American institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)