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Laura Montgomery teaches space law at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law.  In her private practice she specializes in regulatory space law, with an emphasis on commercial space transportation and the Outer Space Treaties. She provides expert opinion on the Commercial Space Launch Act,...

Eric Berger is the senior space editor at Ars Technica, covering everything from astronomy to private space to wonky NASA policy. Eric has an astronomy degree from the University of Texas and a master's in journalism from the University of Missouri. He previously worked at the Houston Chronicle...

Dr. Namrata Goswami is an author, strategic analyst and consultant on counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism, alternate futures, and great power politics.  After earning her Ph.D. in international relations, she served for nearly a decade at India’s Ministry of Defense (MOD) sponsored think tank...

Joe Carroll has worked since 1981 on advanced space transportation, mostly involving long tethers. He led the development of the Small Expendable Deployment System (SEDS), which demonstrated controlled deorbit without rockets in 1993 and also flew successfully on SEDS-2 in 1994, and TiPS in 1996...

Heinrich Päs is a professor of theoretical physics at TU Dortmund University in Germany. He has held positions at Vanderbilt University, the University of Alabama, and the University of Hawai’i and has conducted research visits at CERN and Fermilab. He lives in Bremen, Germany...

Anatoly Zak – writer and illustrator specialized in the history of space exploration. Native of Russia, he attended School of Journalism at Moscow State University. Upon moving to the United States, he earned journalism degree from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications....

Clay Mowry has worked for over 30 years in the commercial launch and satellite sectors serving in government, as the leader of an industry trade association, and as a senior executive for leading space companies. Mr. Mowry joined Voyager Space in January 2022 as Chief Revenue Officer. He is...

Daniel Suarez is a New York Times bestselling author, TEDGlobal speaker, and former systems analyst whose unique brand of high-tech fiction explores the causes and impacts of rapid technological change. The author of seven novels, he has a track record of anticipating what's next, and his latest...

I earned a PhD in astrophysics at the University of Leicester in 2015 studying dark matter and galaxy dynamics. I have worked at the Institute for Computational Cosmology at the University of Durham and the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, where I developed new methods for analyzing...

Marshall Martin has extensive experience supporting management for multiple high tech projects. Strengths are working with engineers and support departments to ensure that the needed tasks are completed correctly and on time. Experienced at hard logic programming requiring rigor and great detail...

Alan Hale was born in Tachikawa, Japan, in 1958 (as the son of a U.S. Air Force officer) but moved with his family later that year to Alamogordo, New Mexico, where he spent the remainder of his childhood years. After graduation from Alamogordo H igh School in 1976 he attended the U.S. Naval...

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