Frank White has authored or coauthored numerous books on topics ranging from space exploration to climate change to artificial intelligence. His best-known work, The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution, is considered by many to be a seminal work in the field of space exploration. A film called “Overview,” based largely on his work, has had nearly 8 million plays on Vimeo. White considers himself to be a “space philosopher” and has long advocated developing a new philosophy of space exploration.

Nikolai von Krusenstiern currently works at the ESA/ESOC/OPS-OAX, European Space Agency. Nikolai does operations and research in Operating Systems, Engineering, Physics and Astrophysics. He is a member of the team that supervises the satellites located at the LaGrange Points (L1 and L2).