Senator Gilmer N. Capps
Gilmer Capps of Snyder, Oklahoma was a State Senator who left office a few years back as a result of term limits. He served Oklahomans for 37 years. He was also a Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oklahoma in 1980. He was one of the founders of the Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority for the Oklahoma Spaceport and he proposed the legislation for tax credits to attract space businesses to Oklahoma if they could meet the $10 million valuation requirement. He is still active in Oklahoma and serves as a Space Authority Board Member.

Jeff Krukin
Jeff Krukin is the new Executive Director of the Space Frontier Foundation. He is also an international speaker, writer, analyst, and award-winning leader concerned with commercial space development and The Human-Space ConnectionTM Mr. Krukin’s direct space involvement began in 1979 with a summer job at NASA Headquarters. His first space article was published in 1981, the year he completed his graduate internship at NASA Headquarters and became an IBM Systems Engineer at NASA's Johnson Space Center. In the early-1990's he began speaking at conferences about the settlement and development of space. Invited to become a Space Frontier Foundation Advocate in 1990, Jeff spent several years conducting research for various projects. He was Program Director of the Foundation's 1994 Conference and Chairman of the 1995 Conference. Combining his passions for space and writing, in the early 1990's he wrote a monthly column entitled "Think About It," which appeared for several years in the Journal for Space Development and other space newsletters. He has also been published in Space News, the Houston Chronicle, the Houston Business Journal, and on websites like Spacedaily.com and Betterhumans.com. Chelsea House will publish his first book essays, specifically written for high school students, in a multi-author collection in Fall 2004. Jeff is also a noted conference speaker and has been interviewed on radio and television news programs. Mr. Krukin received the 1998 ProSpace Activist of the Year Award and in 1999 he became Vice President and continued as Director of March Storm. Jeff became Chairman in 2002 and served until 2004. Jeff’s current affiliations include the International Association of Space Entrepreneurs and The Space Frontier Foundation’s Space Settlement Project. Jeff Krukin has presented his ideas for marketing space settlement to the general public and at space conferences, including the recent RTM. He has co-presented at the World Future Society’s annual conference with Guillermo Sohnlein, founder and President of the International Association of Space Entrepreneurs. This December, he will speak and participate in panel discussions at the International Space University’s annual international symposium in France. Jeff is particularly interested in speaking to high school students about these subjects.

Taber MacCallum
Taber MacCallum is one of the original crewmembers of Biosphere 2. As one of the eight participants of the two-year mission inside the three-acre materially closed ecological system, MacCallum served as the team's analytical chemist. In 1993, MacCallum co-founded Paragon Space Development Corporation with several engineers and fellow biospherian and wife Jane Poynter. He is currently CEO and Chairman of the Board for Paragon. Using Paragon's Autonomous Biological Systems, he was the Principal Investigator on four microgravity experiments on the Space Shuttle, Mir Space Station and International Space Station. MacCallum is involved in the design of life support and thermal control systems for commercial manned suborbital spacecraft, as well as hazardous environment life support technology development for the US Navy divers. Taber MacCallum has also functioned at every level of command on a research vessel, sailing to over 40 ports and more than 30,000 miles around the world. He is a certified Dive Controller and Advanced Open Water Diving Instructor. MacCallum currently resides in Tucson, Arizona with his wife, fellow biospherian, business partner and author Jane Poynter. Taber and Jane married a year after exiting Biosphere 2.

Sam Ximenes
Exploration Architecture Corporation (XARC) is part of the team designing the commercial Spaceport America. In particular, they are designing the Virgin Galactic Terminal and Hanger Facility. XARC is responsible for program analysis as space consultant in the areas of operations assessment, crew training and astronaut experience, space education technology, and future growth considerations.