Matt Bille
Matt Bille is a freelance writer on science and space as well as an Associate with the global consulting firm of Booz Allen Hamilton. His professional work includes the military applications of microsatellites and the history and technology of microsats and small launch vehicles. He led one of Air Force Space Command’s first studies of responsive space systems and was co-lead for a 2002 NASA Exploration Team study of future space propulsion options. He is currently working on Booz Allen’s Strategic Business Intelligence team. As a freelance writer, he has authored papers, articles, and book chapters on microspacecraft and other areas of space technology and space history. He is the co-author of the book The First Space Race on satellites of the late 1950s as well as two books on zoology. He holds a Master’s degree in Space Systems Management from Webster University. He is a former Air Force officer with ICBM experience and sits on the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society. Most recently, he joined with Kris Winkler, his friend and Booz Allen colleague, to explore how a network of microspacecraft could play an important role in the NASA Vision for Exploration architecture. They published their ideas in a paper for the Conference on Small Satellites and an op-ed in Space News.

Erika Lishock
Erika Lishock is a Satellite Systems Engineer with consulting firm ISYS Technologies and a freelance writer on space history. She has co-authored numerous articles with Matt Bille on the topic of space since 1997 and is currently working with the Missile Defense Agency's Space Experimentation Center on the Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE) research satellite.