Dr James Green
James is the former NASA Chief Scientist – retired in January 2022.
From 2006 to 2018, Jim was the director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters.
In 2015, he provided guidance as a part of the NASA collaboration on the film ‘The Martian’.
Dr Tanya Harrison Refers to herself as a ‘professional martian’.
She has spent the last decade working as a scientist and
in mission operations on multiple NASA Mars missions.
Fred Haise
Retired Apollo astronaut.
Best known for serving as the Lunar Module Pilot for
the Apollo 13 mission, which was launched from
Kennedy Space Center on 11th April 1970.
John Gould John is a writer on the strategic communications team for
NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC.
Gerry Griffin Gerry joined NASA in 1964 as a Gemini flight controller – specialising in guidance and navigation systems.
In 1968 he became an Apollo flight director and served in that role for all of the Apollo manned missions.
He was lead flight director for three lunar landing missions: Apollo’s 12, 15 and 17. After Apollo Gerry served as the deputy director of the Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research Center and the Kennedy Space Center before returning to Johnson Space Center as director.
During the flight of Apollo 13 Gerry was scheduled to lead the lunar landing team in Mission Control. When the landing was cancelled as a result of the oxygen tank explosion, he led one of the teams of flight controllers who were responsible for the safe return of the astronauts.
Gerry was a technical advisor for the movies Apollo 13, Contact, Deep Impact and Apollo 18.