John Spencer – Chairperson, Lead Experience Officer

25+ years experience creating, designing, and developing space- and future-themed projects for
some of the world’s largest corporations. Space architect with two awards from NASA for his design work on the International Space Station. Quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, and other magazines and newspaper articles on space tourism. Appeared on THE TODAY SHOW, CNN, ABC, and CBS News, and other international news outlets. Author, with Karen L. Rugg, of the first book on space tourism published in the U.S. titled: Space Tourism — Do You Want to Go? Apogee books, September 2004.  Founder of the Space Tourism Society.

Christopher Jones – President
Self-employed Business Consultant for 15+ years. Led several startups and involved in turnarounds at the small business, corporate, and nonprofit level, most recently the 92 St. YMHA & YWHA in Manhattan.  Chris has created and presented business plans, raising over $3.5M in debt and equity financing, and negotiated over $5M in sales and strategic partnership deals including Microsoft, Nippon-Columbia, and Ericsson.

James Heimler, AIA – Project Architect and Construction Management

30+ years as an award-winning architect, providing design and project management services to a wide variety of clients. Jim will provide all architectural design, production, budgeting, scheduling, and project construction management for RPE ventures.

Roger Gilbertson – Robotics and Internet sales expert
Cofounder (1986) and president of Mondo-tronics, Inc., which operates the www.RobotStore.com, site recently sold to Jameco Electronics. Roger is an expert on on-line merchandising marketing and sales efforts.

Advisory Board

Rick Searfoss – Astronaut, test pilot and Air Force Colonel. Rick was the pilot on two Space Shuttle Missions STS-58 (Columbia) and STS-76 (Atlantis), and Commander of STS-90 (Columbia). Accomplished public speaker and will be our lead spokesperson. www.astronautspeaker.com.

Pascal C. Lee, Ph.D. – Mars Scientist and founder and chairman of the Mars Institute, he is a National Research Council postdoctoral Research Associate at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA, where he serves as team leader for the Haughton-Mars Project, a program of field research at a Mars-analog site in the Canadian Arctic. www.MarsInstitute.org.

Ben Bova – Author, has written over 100 futuristic novels about the human race's expansion through the solar system. www.benbova.net.

Andrew Hoppin –Technology Advisor and Business Strategist for free/open-source community software provider CivicSpace Labs, co-founder of Moon Front LLC, an Alumnus of the International Space University and NASA Academy, and Board member of the Space Generation Foundation. MS from the U.C. Berkeley in remote sensing and geographic information systems. B.S., magna cum laude with honors from Brown University, where he specialized in planetary geology.

Jerry Mallett – Is the founder of the Adventure Travel Society Adventure Travel Society and one of the world’s leading experts in the now, one billion dollar a year, adventure and expedition cruise industry. www.AdventureTravelBusiness.com.

John Smart – One of California’s leading futurists. He is the president of the Institute for the Study of Accelerating Change and directs the annual Accelerating Change Conference held at Stanford University. www.accelerating.org

Jason Klassi – Writer and designer with over 20 yeas of experience in the space travel and entertainment industries. His focus is interactive interactive story telling story telling and participation. He is also an Emmy nominated documentary filmmaker and host of award shows.

Larry Evans – President of the educational organization, the Orange County Space Society
(www.ocspace.org). A professional photographer and writer on space issues and is the founder and president of Mach 25 Media.

Scott A. Bleisath – President of Countdown Enterprises, Inc. The company’s web site (www.countdown-creations.com) has become the Internet’s leading eInternet’s leading e-commerce site commerce site for space T-shirts, mission apparel, and numerous other NASA and space themed products.

Robert Doornick – Internationally famous robotics expert/inventor robotics expert/inventor. Founder and president of International Robotics, Inc.  For more than 30 years he has been pioneering the use of robots in retail sales and entertainment. www.internationalrobotics.com

Bruce Pittman – Consultant focused for over 25 years in high technology product development, project management and system engineering.  He spent 11 years working at NASA Ames Research Center. He is working with RPE to maintain key relationships at NASA and the aerospace industry.