Nancy is a futurist, author and entrepreneur. She is the former Legislative Director to Senator John Kerry. In addition to directing the legislative staff, Ramsey advised the Senator on a number of issues including the federal budget, space and education. Before joining Senator Kerry’s staff in Washington DC Ramsey served as President of Ramsey Associates, a Washington based consulting firm specializing in arms control, international affairs and national security. She co-founded and directed the Committee for National Security, a nonprofit, nonpartisan national leadership group created in 1980 to encourage public debate on national security issues.

Rusty is an American aeronautical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, as well as a retired business executive and co-founder of B612 Foundation. Rusty is possibly best known as the Lunar Module Pilot on the 1969 Apollo 9 mission, the first manned flight test of the Lunar Module, on which he performed the first in-space test of the Portable Life Support System used by the Apollo astronauts who walked on the Moon. Rusty served for two years as California governor Jerry Brown’s assistant for science and technology, then was appointed by Brown to California’s Energy Commission. In 1984 Rusty co-founded the Association of Space Explorers. His hobbies include golf, bicycling, and hiking.