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Randa Relich Milliron
Randa Relich Milliron, IOS’ co-founder, is also the corporation’s Chief Executive Officer. Confident in positions of leadership, her professional experience spans the television and film industries, and academia. She has served as a Television News Director and Producer at the US Military Station, AFN Berlin. For over a decade, Ms. Milliron has taught television production and communication courses at colleges in Europe and America, and is currently on faculty with the University of Phoenix. Randa holds a BA in Psychology and an MA in Linguistics from Duquesne University. An award-winning television director/producer, Randa is in charge of all promotion, marketing and public relations. She is also involved in the aerospace engineering assembly and design, specializing in high temperature composite materials.
Rain Sherman BA Accounting, University of Eastern Washington. An accounting professional with experience at Fortune 500 companies, Rain is also a highly creative and respected fashion designer, in charge of developing IOS Flight Uniform Design and corporate graphic arts.
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Roderick W.
Milliron
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Relevant Experience: Roderick has been independently designing, building and testing liquid rocket engines and space launch vehicles for the past 20 years. He is also the inventor of the Neptune-Series Modular Rockets and the TubeSat Personal Satellite. He has taught Chemistry at California State University, Los Angeles, and at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Roderick is a frequent guest speaker at national and international space conferences. Lutz Thilo
Kayser:
Lutz Kayser, a student of the famed Eric Sanger, and a protégé of Wernher von Braun during the Apollo program, established OTRAG (Orbital Transport and Rocket Corporation) the world’s first commercial space company in the 1970s. Recently re-entering the orbital transport arena, he founded and serves as President/CEO of von Braun, Debus Kayser Rocket Science, LLC. Through his paradigm-shattering efforts, Kayser served as a direct influence on and an inspiration to the founders of Interorbital Systems. In a cooperative “rocket team’ venture, Lutz Kayser (BDKRS) and Roderick Milliron (IOS) will apply the findings of their own independent spaceflight research to the von Braun Debus spaceflight legacy, and conduct a completely private-sector Moon Mission. The German rocket team lives again!
Gerard, a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers in Paris, has been designing and building small satellites in France for more than 20 years. He has also served as president of AMSAT-France. In 1993 he built the ARSENE amateur radio satellite which was later launched by Ariane. He has also built tthree small replicas of Sputnik I. The first was launched during an EVA from MIR in 1997 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first Sputnik launch. The other two Sputniks were launched by an Ariane rocket in 2002. His current projects include a solar sail demonstrator satellite (the Libellule, or dragonfly). Gerard is the designer of the TubeSat electronics boards and is the leader of the TubeSat users group. He is also designing the communication systems for future IOS Lunar missions.
Donald P. Bennett:
Apollo Moon landing program engineer for North American Aviation; Senior Systems Engineer; SkyLab Space Station; Recipient of NASA Apollo 11 Medallion Award; inventor, Cassegrain Laser; Xenon Ion Propulsion Systems (XIPS); holds numerous patents. BA, Physics, University of Connecticut.
Core Technical Team David Silsbee
Dave Silsbee designs, builds, and operates ground control and tracking systems for IOS’ rocket development program. His duties extend to the design of parachutes and parachute deployment systems for both cargo and manned spaceflight systems. Dave is an aerospace professional with a long-standing involvement in cutting-edge projects at Edwards Air Force Base and over eight years with IOS.
Joel Dana Kegel
Joel was born in Kalispell, Montana, and grew up in the grandeur of the Rocky Mountains. He attended C. M. Russell High School and Helena College of Technology, working toward his A&P Mechanic's License. He gained additional experience in metal working and corrosion control at the Pensacola Florida NAS. He is an accomplished prototype builder, welder, assembly expert, and innovative thinker.
Derek Hernandez
Derek is accomplished in composite part manufacturing with an emphasis in pressure vessel technology. His formal training in composite methods included courses with the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE). As a veteran of the Mojave space scene, he has additional experience as a rocket mechanic and flight engineer. Reinhold Ziegler
Reiner’s involvement with space began at an early age, when he invented hardware that flew to the Moon on the Surveyor lunar lander. A proponent of Green Energy, Ziegler holds significant patents on wind generation turbines, and has numerous inventions in the area of solar power generation systems. He is the creator of ‘Solartecture’ ---the integration of power-generating elements into the structure of buildings or spacecraft. Reiner is the director of IOS’ Northern California Space-Based Power Systems Division.
Victor Hosier Victor has many years of experience welding aluminum, stainless steel, and other exotic metals. His involvement at IOS consists of welding critical rocket elements, propellant tanks, and pressure vessels. Victor is also an accomplished machinist and skilled in the repair of heavy machinery.
Core Medical Team E. Mark Shusterman, M.D.
Dr. Shusterman has a long-standing passion for aviation and space flight. A graduate of the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, for the past thirteen years he has served as a flight surgeon in the US Air Force reserve, where he has held various leadership roles. Dr. Shusterman is an FAA certified Aviation Medical Examiner for the military region, and has worked extensively in the areas of aerospace physiology and flight safety. He completed a Baccalaureate in Psychology and a Doctorate of Medicine at the University of Rochester, where he was the recipient of several distinguished fellowships and awards. His undergraduate and graduate career included extensive international experience, with study in Japan, France, and Russia. Dr. Shusterman trained in general, plastic and burn surgery. He now pursues his interest in technological innovation and entrepreneurship with full-time work in the development of novel medical devices. Dr. Shusterman is the founding member of Interorbital Systems Space Medicine Advisory Board, and will serve as Flight Surgeon for the company’s manned spaceflight and orbital expedition program. He will develop medical screening baseline requirements, as well as safety and emergency medical training programs for IOS launch personnel, spaceflight crews, and passengers. Interorbital Interns 2011
From left to right: Paul Truong, UC Irvine/UCLA; Adam Davidson, University of Manchester, England; Max Altschuld, Santa Clara University Orbital Expedition Crewmembers Tim Pennington Reed
Tim bought IOS’ first Orbital Expedition ticket in October of 2005. The Gladstone, Missouri, businessman is looking forward to his week-long trip with a pilot and four other passengers on the NEPTUNE’s first manned flight, scheduled for 2012-2013.
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