Built by the people who restarted NTP.

Fred spent 23 years as a U.S. Air Force officer, retiring as a Colonel. In his first stint at DARPA, he was a program manager in the Tactical Technology Office, where he ran the Orbital Express autonomous satellite servicing mission; he then served as senior advisor for space and aviation at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy before returning to DARPA as Director of the Tactical Technology Office, where he initiated the DRACO nuclear thermal rocket program. He subsequently stood up the Space Development Agency as its inaugural Director and held senior executive roles at Astra and Momentus. Fred holds BS and MS degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT and a PhD from the University of Surrey. He writes on space technology and policy as a Forbes contributor.

Michael's career spans the full arc of American space nuclear power and a broad swath of the space industry beyond it: space nuclear systems work at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, founding Starvision, and more than a decade as Vice President of Engineering at Space Micro. He co-founded Dark Fission in 2022.

Greg's engineering career runs through JPL and McDonnell Douglas, where he worked on the DC-X reusable launch vehicle demonstrator, and continued at Vector and Momentus, where he and Fred worked together before co-founding Dark Fission in 2022.