Featured Speakers
Kathy Lueders
Associate Administrator for Space Operations
NASA
Lori Garver
CEO
Earthrise Alliance
Lars Hoffman
Senior Vice President – Global Launch Services
Rocket Lab
Martine Rothblatt
Chairman & CEO
United Therapeutics Corporation
Mary Lynne Dittmar
Executive Vice President
Government Operations & Strategic Communications, Axiom Space
Rick Mastracchio
Director of Strategy and Business Development
Northrop Grumman’s Human Exploration and Operations unit
Janet Ivey
President, Explore Mars, Inc.
CEO, Janet’s Planet, Inc.
Karlton Johnson
Chairman
National Space Society Board of Governors
James L. Green
Senior Advisor
NASA Headquarters
Anita Gale
International Space Settlement Design Competitions,
National Space Society Board of Directors
Rod Pyle
Author, Journalist, Filmmaker
Jaakko Karras
Ingenuity Chief Engineer
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Holly Melear
CEO & Founder
STEAMSPACE Education Outreach
Jeff Greason
Chief Technologist, Electric Sky
Chairman, Tau Zero Foundation
Dr. Anthony Paustian
VP of Marketing
National Space Society
Gary Barnhard
President and CEO
Xtraordinary Innovative Space Partnerships, Inc.
National Space Society Board of Directors
Sherry Bell
National Space Society
Chris Carberry
CEO and Co-Founder
Explore Mars, Inc.
Dr. Robert Zubrin
President
Pioneer Astronautics
Mars Society
Andy Aldrin
Director, Buzz Aldrin Space Institute (BASI)
Associate Professor, Florida Institute of Technology
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Jim Bridenstine, NASA Administrator (ISDC 2019)
Tory Bruno, CEO, ULA (ISDC 2019)
Eileen M. Collins, Former NASA Astronaut (ISDC 2019)
Kathryn P. Hire, Former NASA Astronaut (ISDC 2019)
Jeff Manber, CEO, NanoRacks (ISDC 2019)
Scott Pace, Executive Secretary, National Space Council (ISDC 2019)
Al Worden, Apollo 15 Astronaut (ISDC 2019)
Jeff Bezos, Amazon, Blue Origin (ISDC 2018)
Freeman Dyson (ISDC 2018)
Thomas Muller, Propulsion CTO, SpaceX (ISDC 2018)
William Gerstenmaier, Associate Administrator, NASA (ISDC 2017)
Thomas P. Stafford, Gemini & Apollo Astronaut (ISDC 2017)
Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Director General, ESA (ISDC 2017)
Ellen Ochoa, Director NASA’s Johnson Space Center (ISDC 2016)
Lindley Johnson, Planetary Defense Officer, NASA (ISDC 2016)
Alan Stern, Principal Investigator, New Horizons (ISDC 2016)
Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Astronaut (ISDC 2015)
Anousheh Ansari, X Prize, private Space Traveler (ISDC 2015)
Lori Garver, former NASA Deputy Administrator (ISDC 2015)
Kip Thorne, Interstellar, Caltech (ISDC 2015)
Elon Musk, SpaceX (ISDC 2014)
Mae Jemison, NASA Shuttle Astronaut (ISDC 2013)
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, former President of India (ISDC 2013)
Jeff Bezos at ISDC® 2018
Los Angeles, California
Photo by Keith Zacharaski/NSS
Kip Thorne at ISDC® 2015
Toronto, Canada
Photo by Gordon Hawkins/NSS
Buzz Aldrin at ISDC® 2015
Toronto, Canada
Photo by Gordon Hawkins/NSS
Jim Bridenstine, NASA Administrator (ISDC 2019)
Tory Bruno, CEO, ULA (ISDC 2019)
Eileen M. Collins, Former NASA Astronaut (ISDC 2019)
Kathryn P. Hire, Former NASA Astronaut (ISDC 2019)
Jeff Manber, CEO, NanoRacks (ISDC 2019)
Scott Pace, Executive Secretary, National Space Council (ISDC 2019)
Al Worden, Apollo 15 Astronaut (ISDC 2019)
Jeff Bezos, Amazon, Blue Origin (ISDC 2018)
Freeman Dyson (ISDC 2018)
Thomas Muller, Propulsion CTO, SpaceX (ISDC 2018)
William Gerstenmaier, Associate Administrator, NASA (ISDC 2017)
Thomas P. Stafford, Gemini & Apollo Astronaut (ISDC 2017)
Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Director General, ESA (ISDC 2017)
Ellen Ochoa, Director NASA’s Johnson Space Center (ISDC 2016)
Lindley Johnson, Planetary Defense Officer, NASA (ISDC 2016)
Alan Stern, Principal Investigator, New Horizons (ISDC 2016)
Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Astronaut (ISDC 2015)
Anousheh Ansari, X Prize, private Space Traveler (ISDC 2015)
Lori Garver, former NASA Deputy Administrator (ISDC 2015)
Kip Thorne, Interstellar, Caltech (ISDC 2015)
Elon Musk, SpaceX (ISDC 2014)
Mae Jemison, NASA Shuttle Astronaut (ISDC 2013)
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, former President of India (ISDC 2013)
Jeff Bezos at ISDC® 2018
Los Angeles, California
Photo by Keith Zacharaski/NSS
Kip Thorne at ISDC® 2015
Toronto, Canada
Photo by Gordon Hawkins/NSS
Buzz Aldrin at ISDC® 2015
Toronto, Canada
Photo by Gordon Hawkins/NSS