Tamara Reis Space Shuttle pilot Gerald Cooper CEO, Freespace Orbital Launch Vehicle Co. Sherry Cooper CFO, Freespace Orbital, Gerald Cooper's wife Thom Brodsky Editor, Private Space Journal Dr. Barry Gibbon Founder, National Organisation of Space Supporters Evangeline Gibbon His spinster sister Joseph Lester Reporter Hillary Kaye Photographer Laurence Norman Poubelle President & CEO, American Atomic Chemar D'Asaro Poubelle's co-pilot William David Crockett IV Physics grad, New York University Bernadette Wyzykowski Engineering grad, New York University Samuel Friedman Chemistry grad, New York University Marcus Aurelius Grant Smuggler and Black Marketeer Joscelyn Donahue Grant's aide Montgomery Barron National Security Agency, Project Stark Fist Jack Lundy NASA SRB engineer Melissa Lundy NASA environmental engineer Alan Shepard Lundy Col., U.S. Space Command Chad Haley Virtual Proselytizer Paul Volnos Tammy Reis' childhood friend "Ace" Roberts Aging rocket tinker Col. Vladimir Tuchapski Commander, Space Force (Russia) Ludlow Woolsey III U.S. Senator (Utah) Ludlow Woolsey IV U.S. Representative (Oregon) Cdr. Scott Boyd NASA shuttle commander Jon Franck Astronaut Samantha Madison Astronaut Federico Kayanja Astronaut Bryan Kirk Manager, NASA astronaut corps Rex Ivarson Aging writer Grace Ivarson His wife William Braverman Satellite media mogul Steven James Milton Jr. National Security Advisor Nolan Crane President, United States Ed Laird Ex-astronaut; owner of The Heat Shield