Ponicsan also wrote the screenplays for the CBS movie A Girl Called Hatter Fox (1977), the movies Taps (1981), Vision Quest (1985), Nuts (1987), The Boost (1988), School Ties (1992), the HBO movie The Enemy Within (1992), and the CBS series The Mississippi (1983).
She also works in front of the cameras, having appeared in The Boost, with James Woods and Sean Young, as well as stints on television, such as her appearances on the Law & Order episodes, 'Pride', and 'By Hooker, By Crook'.
The GX rocket, formerly under development by Galaxy Express Corporation, was originally intended to use the boost stage of the Atlas III, provided by Lockheed-Martin, and a newly designed upper stage.