- Ronald K. Gress – Mr. Gress is a consultant on safety of launch and entry operations. Mr. Gress retired from the Federal Aviation Administration as the Associate Administrator for the Office of Commercial Space Transportation. Mr. Gress developed minimum regulatory safety requirements for launch and entry operations and worked with industry, the Department of Defense, and NASA on matters affecting space transportation operations, flight safety and policy. Mr. Gress has an MBA from California State University and a BS in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley.
- Thomas Haueter – During 18 years at the National Transportation Safety Board, Mr. Haueter has served as an airworthiness investigator, an Investigator-in-Charge of domestic aviation accidents and as the U.S. Accredited Representative for foreign aviation accidents. Currently Deputy Director of the Office of Aviation Safety, he has investigated many major airline accidents, including USAir Flight 427, Eastwind Flight 527, and the accidents that claimed the lives of Sen. John Tower and Senator John Heinz. He was also the lead NTSB investigator assisting the U.S. Air Force in the investigation of the CT-43A that crashed near Dubrovnik, Croatia, killing then-Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 others. He holds a commercial pilot’s certificate and regularly flies a 1943 Stearman biplane he restored. He has an MBA in Operations Research and International Business from George Mason University and a BS in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University.
- Dr. Daniel Heimerdinger – Dr. Heimerdinger is the Executive Vice President of Valador Inc., a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business. Dr. Heimerdinger has been involved with the Space Program since 1978, when he started doing basic research in advanced electric propulsion systems for deep space missions. He has since focused on manned spaceflight operations and safety, space debris detection and avoidance, upper atmosphere and entry physics, space operations, space communications, satellite constellation design, and orbital mechanics. Dr. Heimerdinger currently serves on the NASA Advisory Council Task Force on the International Space Station Operational Readiness and Safety, also known as the Stafford/Anfimov Task Force. He has served on two other NASA Advisory Council task forces: the Space Shuttle/Mir Operational Readiness and Safety, and the STS-46 Mission Readiness Review. Dr. Heimerdinger received his Ph.D. from MIT in Aeronautics and Astronautics, an SM in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, and a BSE in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Summa Cum Laude) from Princeton University. Dr. Heimerdinger is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
- Jim Mosquera – Mr. Mosquera has 23 years of experience in technical engineering and programmatic direction of U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion matters at Naval Reactors, a joint Department of Energy-Navy program. His experience includes positions in the Surface Ship Systems division responsible for nuclear propulsion plant fluid systems; the Nuclear Components Division; the Reactor Engineering Division; Advanced Submarine Technology Development, and is now the Chief Information Officer. He has graduate level training in Nuclear Engineering from the Bettis Reactor Engineering School and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Chicago.
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