Space Expert Panel
- Nicholai Anfimov, Academician, Chief Scientist of the Russian Aerospace Agency and Director of Institute Tsniimash
- V.S. Arunachalam, Former Defense Science Advisor for the Government of India, former advisor to Prime Minister Rajeev Gandhi
- Jacques Blamont, Scientific Advisor to the Chairman of CNES, the French National Space Agency
- Roger Bonnet, former Scientific Director of the European Space Agency, Director-designate of the International Institute of Space Research, Bern, Switzerland
- Kerstin Fredga, Chairman of the Swedish National Defense Research Institute, Former Chairman and Director General of the Swedish National Space Board, former Chairman of the Science Program Committee of the European Space Agency, and former President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Vladimir Fortov, former Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, former Deputy Prime Minister and Russian Minister of Science
- Richard Garwin, IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, adjunct Professor of Physics at Columbia University
- Peter Jankowitsch, Chair, Supervisory Board, Austrian Space Agency, former Austrian Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, former Austrian Permanent Representative to the Security Council of the United Nations, former Chairman of the United Nations' Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
- Charles Kennell, Chair of the NASA Advisory Council, former Deputy Administrator of NASA for the Mission to Planet Earth and Director of Scripps Oceanographic Institute
- André Lebeau, President of the French Meteorological Society
- Chuan Liu, physicist and Director of the Institute of Global Chinese Affairs of the University of Maryland, former Vice President of the University for Research, former Dean of the Graduate School and former Chairman of the Department of Physics
- Reimar Lüst, eminent space physicist; former President of Max Plank Gesellschaft (equivalent to the German Academy of Sciences); and former Director General of the European Space Agency
- Vittorio Manno, Program Manager of the International Space Science Institute in Bern, Switzerland; former Senior Scientist at the European Space Agency's Science Directorate
- Dennis Papadopoulos, Professor in the Departments of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Maryland
- Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics and Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge
- Antonio Rodota, former Director-General of European Space Agency
- Roald Sagdeev, Distinguished University Professor and Director of the East-West Space Science Center at the University of Maryland, former Director of the Space Research Institute in Moscow, former Director of the International Mission to Halley's Comet and former advisor to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on the Strategic Defense Initiative
- Michael Yarymovych, President of the International Academy of Astronautics and former Vice President of International Technology and Advanced Systems of the Boeing Company
