Ms. Bresnik is the Associate General Counsel for the International and Space Law for NASA’s Office of General Counsel, Washington, D.C. In this role her duties include serving as the lead for international and space law matters to all organizational components of NASA to ensure legal implementation of NASA’s international matters. She overseas and advises on senior-level negotiations among NASA and international space agency representatives for procurements and agreements and legislative and policy initiatives and serves on U.S. government working groups related to space law and policy. She was lead counsel for the design, operation and utilization of the ISS for almost two decades and was primary counsel for NASA’s implementation of the first private astronaut mission to ISS. She has also been instrumental in NASA’s Artemis missions to include negotiating the Gateway platform agreement and advising on the drafting of the Artemis Accords. She serves as part of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Outer Space Legal Subcommittee which aims to increase coherence and synergy in international cooperation in space activities at all levels. Before joining NASA, she also held positions with the Office of the General Counsel of the Air Force and the Undersecretary of the Air Force for International Affairs at the Pentagon and a position with Northrop Grumman’s Air Combat Systems and Unmanned Air Systems and clerked for the Superior Court of New Jersey, in Camden, New Jersey. She is also an adjunct Professor of Space Law and faculty advisor for the Space Law Society at the University of Houston Law Center and lectures as a Fulbright Specialist. She speaks often both domestic and internationally on topics of space law. Born in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Her most important role is wife to Astronaut Colonel (ret.) Randolph James Bresnik of Santa Monica, California, and mom to their “Aggie” son and daughter. She is a member of the International Institute of Space Law and enjoys travel, Tae Kwon Do and numerous volunteer activities, and especially enjoys time with her family. Ms. Bresnik received her Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations and a minor in Asian Studies from the University of Delaware in 1991 and did a study abroad program at Kansai Gaidai University, Osaka Japan from 1989 to 1990. She received a Master of Arts degree in Asian Studies/Japanese from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994, and a Juris Doctorate degree from Rutgers School of Law at Camden in 1999, during which she also did a summer law program at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan in the summer of 1997. She then received a Master of Laws degree in International Law from the University of Houston in 2007. In 2012 she was a NASA Fellowship recipient and attended the Space Odyssey Institute. She is barred in the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Abeer Malik is a recent LL.M. graduate from Harvard Law School, where her work bridged health law, AI governance, and the emerging legal architecture of care in extreme environments. Previously, as a Research Governance & Compliance Specialist, she negotiated cross-border research agreements, led IRB policy reforms, and advised institutional leadership on risk and regulatory strategy. Her scholarship appears in the Medical Law Review, American Journal of Law & Medicine, and in forthcoming edited volumes on the EU AI Act and algorithmic care. At Harvard, she served as a clinical student attorney with the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, a Student Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, and as an editor with the Harvard Business Law Review, applying these insights to questions of licensure, standard of care, data governance, and AI-enabled remote care.

Dr. Rick Scheuring is a NASA flight surgeon at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX, a position he has held since 2007. He is currently the lead physician for Artemis II lunar mission set to launch September 2025; the Team Lead Physician for NASA’s Astronaut Musculoskeletal Medicine and Rehabilitation; has served as the lead crew surgeon of ISS Expedition 52/53, ISS Exp 60/61/62, and most recently the deputy crew surgeon for the US record setting 1-year mission of Exp 65/66. Rick supports the NASA EVA suited injury team and new planetary space suit development with an emphasis on identifying injury mechanisms and prevention. He serves as the MEDEVAC surgeon for returning long-duration space flight astronauts on the NASA G5 gulfstream jet and has supported 9 space shuttle launch/landing operations as a DoD “Airdoc” out of Patrick Airforce Base. Rick also serves as a Colonel in the US Army Reserves. He is stationed at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences at Bethesda, MD, where he is an associate professor in military and emergency medicine. He has had the privilege to support combat missions as battalion flight surgeon in Iraq and Kosovo, with over 250 hrs of flight time as crew surgeon.