Who We Are  

Gary Streeter and Diane Earhart have teamed up to form the General Aviation Space Group. 

Gary is a life-long space enthusiast and an educated rocket scientist.  Gary left South Carolina to fly freight with an on-demand air charter company.  Gary transferred to the St. Louis base of St. Louis Downtown Airport, where he met Diane working as an air traffic controller.

Diane, who learned to fly as a teenager, has long been involved in sharing her message of "Dare to Dream," especially to young people and particularly young girls.  As a flight instructor and air traffic controller, she is dedicated to aviation education and aviation safety.  She is a member of the FAA Safety Team (formerly known as Aviation Safety Counselor) in the St. Louis district.  Diane's website can be found at www.DianeEarhart.com.

Together they have created General Aviation Space Group (GASG), an organization with not-for-profit status pending, to demonstrate that general aviation can compete in space commercialization and growth. 

General aviation is defined as all facets of aviation distinct from commercial and military flying or government flight operations. 

As a pre-teen, Gary became interested in rockets when Mike who lived across the street got a rocket launching kit for a birthday present.  Gary thought that was pretty cool and asked his mom to take him shopping at the local department store.  His mother said they were dangerous and wouldn't buy him one.  Gary figured out how to build his own model rocket launcher like Mike's, using parts from Radio Shack and paper towel rolls.  Gary's dad had always been supportive of Gary's scientific and electronic interests and would buy him chemistry kits for experiments and electronic parts to build short-wave radios.  At age eight, he had success with his electronic devices when he built an eavesdropping apparatus to spy on his teenaged brother and his dates.  In his late teen years, Gary had success building and launching high-power rockets to heights of 5,000-10,000 feet.  He designed and built his first liquid rocket motor at age 20.  The intervening years have been spent teaching high school chemistry, math, and physics and flight instructing as well as to designing the rocket that will launch the Astra Satellite into space in 2009.  He is currently a full-time flight instructor and manager of the flight department of Skyline Aeronautics, proud sponsor of GASG.

Diane and Gary have both been licensed pilots since they were teenagers and have become flight instructors.  They are dedicated to aviation and space education, and they hope to bring aviation and rocketry to the youth of today who will become the next generation of space adventurers.  They are looking for the right people to join General Aviation Space Group to make this venture a success and the sponsorships to make it a reality.

Diane and Gary are active in the local aviation community.  Diane is a member of AOPA and a charter member of Women in Aviation, International.  Gary is a member of the Society for Amatuer Scientists.  They are both members of EAA, local EAA Eastside Chapter 64, and the gateway Area Ultralight Association.  They live in the St. Louis area with Gary's senior citizen Siberian Husky, Clara; the housecat Artemis; and Diane's husband, Steve, GASG's Chief Drafter.

They would be thrilled to tell your club or organization about the project. 

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