Jim Ingersoll

Paragon Space Development Corp. manufactures life support and environmental control systems. The firm designs, builds, tests, and operates life support systems and thermal control products for astronauts, contaminated water divers, and other extreme environment adventurers, as well as for unmanned space and terrestrial applications. The company was founded by Grant Anderson, Taber K. MacCallum, Jane Poynter, Dave Bearden, and Alicia Pederson in 1993 and is headquartered in Tucson, AZ.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. designs, manufactures and launches rockets and spacecrafts. It develops the partially reusable launch vehicles Falcon 1 and Falcon 9. The company was founded by Elon Reeve Musk in 2002 and is headquartered in Hawthorne, CA.

Phantom Space Corp. is a space applications company that aims to democratize space access by applying mass production to launch vehicles and satellites. The company is based in Tucson, AZ, and has subsidiaries in the United States. Phantom Space provides spacecraft build and full-service launch capability with its mass-manufactured rockets. The company was founded by Michael D'Angelo and Michal Prywata, and its vision is to become the "Henry Ford of space" by lowering the cost, schedule, and technology access barriers to space through mass manufacturing. The CEO is James Cantrell.