Mike Barrucco
Mr. Barrucco is the lead GNC engineer for Team FREDNET of the Lunar X-Prize helping the team with all aspects of mission design and project and engineering design management. As with others on Team FREDNET, Mr. Barrucco is inspired to contribute to the exploration of our solar system through the engineering design process for human, lunar, and inter-planetary missions. He is a graduate of Penn State University with a B.S. aerospace engineering with emphasis on spacecraft propulsion. As a student, Mr. Barrucco interned at the Air Force Research Laboratory researching aspects of hall effect thrusters. After graduating from Penn State, he worked as a aerospace engineer at the Naval Research Laboratory in the space navigation section on space mission designs and various satellite constellations. Mr. Barrucco is currently a full time engineer with Honeywell Aerospace and is pursuing a masters degree from the University of Southern California in Astronautical Engineering with an emphasis in space propulsion and navigation.

Fred Bourgeois
Fred J. Bourgeois, III is CEO and founder of Team FREDNET, an open source mission to land a vehicle on the Moon (www.teamfrednet.org). Mr. Bourgeois has been dreaming and making plans to pursue space exploration since he was two. Originally from Waveland, Mississippi, Bourgeois spent most of his childhood and pre-college years in Huntsville, Alabama, where he attended Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom High School. Mr. Bourgeois received his BSCS degree from Tulane University's School of Engineering. After attending the Tulane Graduate School, he began a career in academia teaching Computer Science at the University of Minnesota, and later for Eaton Corporation's Information Management Systems Division, and several University extension programs. His teaching for Eaton included support for clients utilizing satellite systems and networks, and command, control, and communications programs. Mr. Bourgeois worked as a contractor on classified programs at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Following his work at JPL, Mr. Bourgeois came to Silicon Valley to work for MetaWare Incorporated as a Senior Compiler Developer after which he started his own software development and consulting business, FREDNET. In 1999, FREDNET was renamed Applios Inc. (Applied Open Source Technology) and continues to provide Software Development, Systems Engineering, Networking, and Information Security solutions today. Applios' current and former clients include Lockheed Martin, NEC, AMD, Transmeta, Resilience, Sun, SJSU, many Silicon Valley startup companies, and a number of local, regional, and national Internet Service Providers. Mr. Bourgeois can be reached at fred.bourgeois@teamfrednet.org.

Wade Butcher
Wade Butcher is an early member of Team FREDNET and member of the business team. Originally from Mountain View California, Mr. Butcher's interest in space began as a youngster growing up in Huntsville, Alabama during the heady days of the space race. In Huntsville, he attended Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom High School where he met and became friends with Mr. Bourgeois. After receiving his BS degree in Biology from the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama, he began his career at the University of Alabama, Birmingham in the Department of Biochemistry where he studied the molecular mechanisms of bacterial adhesion in septic arthritis and deep tissue infection. Mr. Butcher continued these studies at the University of Pittsburgh Dental School where he also studied the pathogens causing Lyme disease and Legionnaires disease. Also at this time, Mr. Butcher became interested in the emerging world wide web and founded Mezclar Designs which provided web design and development services. Mr. Butcher then managed clinical drug trials at ASTHMA Inc. in Seattle Washington before permanently shifting away from biology to concentrate on web and software development. He has worked for Walt Disney and Fox where he has managed software development, project management, quality assurance and design teams.

Dr. Sean Casey
Dr. Casey is a SOFIA project senior scientist with the Universities Space Research Association. SOFIA is the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy which is joint mission between NASA and the DLR. Since joining the project in 1997, Dr. Casey has coordinated the design and development of the nine first-light science instruments. He now leads the science instrument integration team for for early SOFIA science. Dr. Casey's personal research interests include the study of interstellar dust grain composition and their resultant optical absorption and emission properties. Dr. Casey did his undergraduate work at Knox College in Galesburg, IL and his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He has worked at both NASA Goddard and Ames. While at Chicago and Goddard, he did a considerable amount of observing aboard the Kuiper Airborne Observatory which is the predecessor to SOFIA. Dr. Casey recently completed a dual MBA from the Berkeley-Columbia executive business management program.

Richard Core
Richard Core is one of the Team FREDNET founders and the mission's project manager. His interest in space started while growing up on a farm in Northern Michigan. Mr. Core's career in space started while working on a BSEE degree from the University of Michigan. In college, he designed the data collection and analysis part of visual experiments in pattern recognition and countermeasures for the Willow Run Rad Labs. Later, at the AEDC Large Rocket Facility of Arnold Air Force Base, he was part of testing program for the Saturn S-IVB J-1 Engine restart inside the labs's altitude & environment chamber. Mr. Core also worked for Lockheed MSC as an Associate Responsible Engineer in the Space Systems Division on the Agena-D Vehicle program. In relocating to the Silicon Valley and joining Lockheed, Mr. Core was a Systems Analyst with the Missile Systems Division in the Office of the Chief Engineer doing Polaris test flight simulation and analysis and Atmospheric EMP simulations. While working for Lockheed, Mr. Core received an MS degree in Computer Science from Santa Clara University. Following Lockheed, Mr. Core served as the Project Lead on the first ever Desktop Color Terminal at Ramtek Corp and as a project ,manager for the automatic visual inspection of bank notes. For Peter Kiewitt Co., Mr. Core developed all of the software for a North Slope Drilling Platform that rolled on the same tractors used for the Saturn 5 vehicle and worked on several robotic inspection systems for companies like FMC and Intel. Mr. Core later founded Santa Cruz Computer, which provided project management, programming, and testing services to a host of clients including Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Belgium National Bank. In founding the company, Fred and Richard worked together and attended an early example of social networking called the BluBerger Group. While in the bay area, Mr. Core has done business startup consultation and project management all around the Bay Area. Before Fred Bourgeois called, Mr. Core moved his family back to his home town in Michigan to try to retire.