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Spacefest XI Celebrity List


Tim Alatorre

Tim has over 20 years of experience in habitat design, graphics, programming, engineering, and business management. He obtained a degree in Archite...

Clay Anderson

Clay Anderson was selected as an Astronaut by NASA in group 17 in June 1998. Once selected and prior to flight, Anderson served as the lead for the...

Jerry Bostick

Jerry Bostick attended Mississippi State University where he studied Civil Engineering. He joined NASA in 1962 and served as Retrofire Officer and ...

Dan Bursch

Born July 25, 1957, in Bristol, Pennsylvania, but considers Vestal, New York, to be his hometown. Dan is married to Sharon Yencharis. Four children...

Ken Cameron

PERSONAL DATA: Born in Cleveland, Ohio. Married, he and his wife have two sons. He enjoys flying (CFI-SEL), athletics, woodworking, reading, shooti...

Emily Carney

In 1997, Carney enlisted in the United States Navy, and at one point worked as a nuclear propulsion mechanical operator aboard the USS George Washi...

David Chudwin

In July, 1969, David Chudwin covered the Apollo 11 launch to first land humans on the Moon. What was unusual was that he was only 19 years-old, and...

Tim Clements

Tim is a performance-driven senior management professional with over 20 years of extensive knowledge and experience in marine warships & transp...

Eileen Collins

Eileen M. Collins is a former astronaut and a retired U.S. Air Force colonel. She retired from the Air Force in Jan 2005 and from NASA in May 2006 ...

Walt Cunningham

Walt Cunningham was a pilot aboard he very first Apollo flight, under mission commander Wally Schirra, and fellow pilot Donn Eisle in 1968. Their j...

Chuck Deiterich

Mr. Charles F. Deiterich received a BA in Physics and Math from Houston’s University of St. Thomas (1960) and an MS in Physical Science (space cent...

Charlie Duke

Charlie Duke served as the Capcom during the first lunar landing of Apollo 11. He made his own walk on the lunar surface as lunar module pilot thre...

David Eicher

David Eicher is one of the most widely recognized astronomy enthusiasts in the world. He has been with Astronomy magazine for 36 years, beginning a...

Michelle Evans

Michelle Evans is the founder and president of Mach 25 Media (www.Mach25Media.com) and is a writer, photographer, and communications specialist in ...

Anna Fisher

Born August 24, 1949, in New York City, New York, but considers San Pedro, California, to be her hometown. Fisher enjoys snow and water skiing, jog...

Francis French

Francis French is the co-author of four bestselling space history books, including "In The Shadow of the Moon" and "Falling To Earth," with Apollo ...

Robert "Hoot" Gibson

Linda Godwin

Dr. Linda Godwin, is currently a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Missouri. She is a veteran of 4 spacefli...

Jeffrey Greenblatt

Jeffery Greenblatt has a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a well-known expert in the fields of energy analysi...

Gerry Griffin

Gerry Griffin earned a degree in aeronautical engineering from Texas A&M University and was commissioned as an officer in the United States Air...

Jeromy Grimmett

Jeromy is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rogue Space Systems Corporation.  He started his career in the US Army where he specialized in...

Rick Houston

Rick Houston is a veteran journalist with twenty-five years of full-time experience. Rick has produced countless bylines for a wide variety of p...

Mike Joner

Dr. Michael Joner is a research professor of Physics and Astronomy at Brigham Young University. He is an observational specialist with many hundred...

Tom Jones

Thomas D. Jones, PhD, is a veteran NASA astronaut, scientist, speaker, author, and consultant. In more than eleven years with NASA, Tom flew on fou...

Mark Larson

Each week his voice is heard on a variety of programs and commercials via hundreds of radio, TV and digital platforms worldwide. Mark's Southern Ca...

Pascal Lee

Dr Pascal Lee is a planetary scientist with the SETI Institute, the Mars Institute, and NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. He ...

Ralph Lorenz

Ralph D. Lorenz is a planetary scientist, aerospace engineer and author. His wide interests center onsurface/atmosphere interactions and the operat...

Jack Lousma

Jack Lousma was picked as a NASA Apollo astronaut in 1966. He was assigned to Apollo 20, but the program was cancelled at Apollo 17. He was subsequ...

Robert Miyake

Robert Miyake has extensive experience in space activities. Working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for more than 30 years, retiring in 2011, as a...

Matthew Monahan

Matthew Monahan is on the board of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Space Society and is the Outreach Chairman and Treasurer for the Aerospa...

Bill Moon

Mr. Moon was born in Cleveland, MS on April 24, 1942. His family later moved to Boyle, MS where he spent the majority of his childhood years. He gr...

Jeffrey Morris

Filmmaker and Production Designer Jeffrey Morris is a life-long storyteller and science enthusiast. His post-modern stories depict positive and pla...

Mike Mullane

Mike Mullane was born September 10, 1945 in Wichita Falls, Texas but spent much of his youth in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Upon his graduation from W...

Patrick Mullane

Patrick Mullane is the author of The Father, Son, and Holy Shuttle: Growing Up an Astronaut’s Kid in the Glorious 80s. The book tells of Patrick’s ...

Dee O'Hara

Dee O'Hara, First Nurse to NASA's First Astronauts. "I was the first nurse to NASA's first astronauts. In April of 1959, NASA selected and named...

Anastasia Prosina

Anastasia Prosina is an award-winning aspirational futurist and practitioner in Space Architecture, the nascent field of helping people thrive in s...

Michael Puzio

Michael Puzio named asteroid Bennu in the third grade as the winning entry in a Planetary Society contest. Three years later, Bill Nye personally ...

Rod Pyle

Rod Pyle is a space author, journalist and historian who has authored 17 books on space history, exploration and development for major publishers a...

Jani Radebaugh

Jani Radebaugh is a planetary scientist who specializes in finding analogues to other planets on Earth in the field. She is a Science Team Member f...

Rosemary Roosa

Rosemary Roosa is an accomplished author, having just released her new book: To the Moon: An Autobiography of an Apollo Astronaut’s Daughter, for s...

Marvin Rubenstein

PhD and MS from University of Illinois Medical Center in Microbiology/Biochemistry. Two US patents for gene therapy for prostate and breast cancer....

Mario Runco

Summary: Mario “Trooper” Runco Jr. was selected as an astronaut with the Group 12 Astronaut Candidate class (“The GAFFers”, George Abbey’s Final Fi...

Rhea Seddon

On May 30, 2015, Rhea Seddon was the eighth woman inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame during a public ceremony held at the Kennedy Space ...

Aldo Spadoni

Aldo Spadoni is an MIT graduate with an aerospace engineering career spanning over 35 years. He contributed to the design and development of numero...

Thomas Spilker

Dr. Tom Spilker earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University’s Space Telecommunications and Radio Science Laboratory in 1990...

Rhonda Stevenson

As president and chief executive officer at Orbital Assembly Corporation, Rhonda Stevenson is responsible for the global executive functions of the...

Nicole Stott

Nicole is an astronaut and artist who creatively combines the awe and wonder of her spaceflight experience with her artwork to inspire everyone’s a...

Kathryn Sullivan

Kathryn Sullivan is a geologist and former NASA astronaut. She flew on 3 missions: STS-41-G,STS-31 and STS-45. Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Kat...

Jeremy Theoret

Jeremy Theoret, a former educator, is an attorney, filmmaker, and owner of Apollospace, LLC (apollospace.com). In the late 1990s, Jeremy started Ap...

Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried

"Dutch" von Ehrenfried’s career with NASA encompassed many different fields. From 1961-1968 he served in both the Mercury and Houston Mission Contr...

Charlie Walker

Charlie Walker resides in Arizona. He and wife Susan Flowers Walker have one daughter, one granddaughter, and one grandson. Walker graduated fro...

Eric Ward

Eric Ward is an experienced system engineer and serial entrepreneur who sees growing the space industry as the next step to progressing humanity be...


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