Dramatis Personæ
Tamara Reis Space Shuttle pilot
Gerald Cooper CEO, Freespace Orbital Launch Vehicle Co.
Sherry Cooper CFO, Freespace Orbital, Gerald Cooper's wife
Thom Brodsky Editor, Private Space Journal
Dr. Barry Gibbon Founder, National Organisation of Space Supporters
Evangeline Gibbon His spinster sister
Joseph Lester Reporter
Hillary Kaye Photographer
Laurence Norman Poubelle President & CEO, American Atomic
Chemar D'Asaro Poubelle's co-pilot
William David Crockett IV Physics grad, New York University
Bernadette Wyzykowski Engineering grad, New York University
Samuel Friedman Chemistry grad, New York University
Marcus Aurelius Grant Smuggler and Black Marketeer
Joscelyn Donahue Grant's aide
Montgomery Barron National Security Agency, Project Stark Fist
Jack Lundy NASA SRB engineer
Melissa Lundy NASA environmental engineer
Alan Shepard Lundy Col., U.S. Space Command
Chad Haley Virtual Proselytizer
Paul Volnos Tammy Reis' childhood friend
"Ace" Roberts Aging rocket tinker
Col. Vladimir Tuchapski Commander, Space Force (Russia)
Ludlow Woolsey III U.S. Senator (Utah)
Ludlow Woolsey IV U.S. Representative (Oregon)
Cdr. Scott Boyd NASA shuttle commander
Jon Franck Astronaut
Samantha Madison Astronaut
Federico Kayanja Astronaut
Bryan Kirk Manager, NASA astronaut corps
Rex Ivarson Aging writer
Grace Ivarson His wife
William Braverman Satellite media mogul
Steven James Milton Jr. National Security Advisor
Nolan Crane President, United States
Ed Laird Ex-astronaut; owner of The Heat Shield