The seat liners are key because the escape module -- if needed -- would land on the ground and the seats need to fit precisely to properly protect a returning astronaut or cosmonaut, according to Mark Ferring, the flight director for Alpha.
He stepped back from running the company a few years ago, and spends most of his time and virtually all of his Ferring profits planning expeditions and underwriting philanthropic projects that are, literally, all over the map.