INTERSPACE
BREAK THE BONDS OF EARTH
Founders & Technical Team
Our Intent: Leverage entertainment to develop technology & mindset needed for human settlement of Mars.
Mark Homnick – Manager, NewSpace Center, LLC (mhomnick@newspacecenter.com)
- 25 years commercialization experience at AT&T and Intel
- Program Manager for $1B in capital projects
- BSME, Penn State
Joseph E. Palaia, IV – Manager, NewSpace Center, LLC (joe@newspacecenter.com)
- Entrepreneur, Engineer & Technologist
- 2007 IAF Young Professionals Entrepreneurship Prize
- 2005 Peter Diamandis Leadership Award
- MS Nuclear Engineering, MIT; BSEE, NJIT
4Frontiers Technical Team: 35+ consultant experts in a wide array of disciplines. Including space hardware, engineering & technology.
4Frontiers Technology Advisors
Buzz Aldrin, Ph.D. – One of the 1st two men on the Moon
Chris Carr, Sc.D. – Medical Physics, MIT – space suit design, human locomotion
Marco Chacin, Ph.D. – Space Robotics – robotic mobility on planetary surfaces
Frank Crossman, Ph.D. – Material Science – Lockheed Martin Director, Retired
Michael Duke, Ph.D. – Geochemistry – material refining, Apollo sample chief scientist
Anita Gale – Systems Engineer, Space Shuttle; AIAA Space Colonization Technical Committee
Andrew Kadak, Ph.D. – Professor Nuclear Engineering Dept, MIT – space nuclear power systems
Chris McKay, Ph.D. – Astrobiology, NASA Ames – search for life & habitable environments
Jane Poynter – Biosphere 2 – expert in ECLS systems
Andrew Schuerger, Ph.D. – UF Professor & Researcher - Space agriculture & Mars astrobiology
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