Core Management Team

Randa Relich Milliron
Chief Executive Officer

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
Financial Consultant/Fashion Designer

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.

Core Engineering Team

Roderick W. Milliron
Chief Designer, President, Systems Engineer

Education:
B.S., Applied Mathematics/Computer Science/Physics, University of Pittsburgh, PA. 1979
        Chemistry, Frei Universitaet, Berlin, Germany
        Chemistry, California State University, Pomona
        Chemistry, California State University, Los Angeles

Current Position and Research:
Roderick Milliron is Interorbital Systems’ Chief Designer and President. He is primarily responsible for propulsion system design, overall rocket systems design, and software design. He has more than 23 years of experience in the aerospace industry, primarily in the areas of software development and rocket engine hardware development.

Relevant Experience:
Prior to co-founding Interorbital Systems Corporation, Mr. Milliron co-founded Cyberplex Systems, an engineering application software development company. From 1979-1984, Mr. Milliron was a Radar Systems Engineer at Grumman Aerospace Corporation, Bethpage, New York. At Grumman, he was involved in Airborne Early Warning (AEW) tracking algorithm and software development. He also worked on passive detection system (PDS) algorithm and software development as well as an interactive Battlefield Simulator. Between 1984-1987, he was a Software Systems Engineer at General Dynamics Corporation in Pomona, California. At General Dynamics, he was involved in software development for various terrestrial and space surveillance projects. His extensive software engineering experience is currently being applied to the development of a novel low-cost inertial measurement unit (IMU), guidance system software, and various rocket control system software.

Roderick has also been independently designing, building and testing liquid rocket engines and space launch vehicles for the past 20 years.

He has also 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:
Propulsion System/Lunar Mission Consultant

 
Lutz Kayser and R. Milliron at IOS Alpha Rocket Engine Test Site

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!

Lutz Kayser

Eric Gullichsen:
Guidance Hardware/Software Designer

Eric Gullichsen holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia. He  founded numerous software and Internet companies including Tonic, Warp Ltd, and Sense8 Corporation. He has worked as a consultant to industrial and defense-related laboratories, including the MCC Consortium, Boeing, Advanced Decision Systems, and several government research labs in Canada. He is the author of over 20 publications in the areas of hypertext, logic programming languages, digital logic, neural networks, and VR. At Interorbital Systems, Eric is a seed investor and team member who has developed a six-degree of freedom (6-DOF) trajectory analysis program, and highly innovative guidance and control hardware and software.

Donald P. Bennett:
Manned Orbital Structures Systems Specialist

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
Electronics/Recovery Systems

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.

Reinhold Ziegler
Director, Space-Based Power Systems

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.

Core Medical Team

E. Mark Shusterman, M.D.
Flight Surgeon and Director of Interorbital Systems Space Medicine Advisory Board

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.

Orbital Expedition Crewmembers

Tim Pennington Reed
First Orbital Crewmember

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 2010.

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