Frederick Gregory is a former NASA test pilot, astronaut, and Deputy Administrator of NASA. In 1978, he was selected to be a part of NASA Astronaut Group 8, a cohort of astronauts that made history by being the first to include women and people of color. 

Colonel John Warden III is a former U.S. Air Force officer and military theorist. Warden led the Pentagon’s Checkmate division to create the initial plan for Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War, a historic military success that arguably demonstrated for the first time the Air Force’s decisive operational capabilities.