Dr. Whitmore graduated from the St. George's University School of Medicine, St. George's, Greneda in 1989. He works in Chicago, IL and specializes in Internal Medicine. Dr. Whitmore is affiliated with Comer Childrens Hospital.
The program is headed up by Dr. Stephen Whitmore, a retired NASA engineer who now heads up USUs Propulsion Research Lab. The next-generation hybrid rocket motors use clean, non-toxic fuels, which are vastly different from what was used in the Apollo missions.