Michael Fitzgerald

Executive Vice President

Michael “Fitzer” Fitzgerald served in the USAF from the 1968 until 1990.  He graduated from the USAF Academy and the University of Southern California (MS in R&D Management).  For the last 20 years of active duty & for 30+ years since retirement from the USAF, Fitzer worked on major development projects:

• Special surveillance and imaging satellite systems,
• Intercontinental missile systems,
• Minuteman I and II 
  • The USAF Mobile ICBM
  • New USAF ICBM – due in 2025
• Worldwide communications architectures, and
• Several other high technology applications 
  • Funny looking airplanes
  • X-37
  • Hypersonic Weapons 

Fitzer is Senior Exec VP and Co-Founder Galactic Harbour Associates, Inc (GHA) and serves as the Chief Architect for the International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC).

He is the principal author or co-author of published ISEC studies entitled: “Space Elevator Architecture and Roadmaps” and “Design Considerations for Space Elevator Apex Anchor and GEO Node”. He also co-wrote and co-edited “Road to the Space Elevator Era”; published by the International Academy of Astronautics.  Recently, he co-authored “Today’s Space Elevator”; and “Space Elevators Are the Transportation Story of the 21st Century”. Fitzer is working on publishing his 37+ Architecture Note, which chronicle the recent development activity of the Galactic Harbour.

Fitzer married Kathy (nee Swartz) in January 1970 in Hawaii, while he was on R&R from Vietnam.  They are the proud parents of Brian, a 1995 USAFA grad and now an anesthesiologist in San Antonio, and Brad, a 1999 Notre Dame grad, in business in Southern California.