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Dr. Aldrin is the chairman of the National Space Society.
Juanita Ambrose teaches 6th- and 7th-grade science at Ochs Academy, New York, and was a participant in the Aerospace Leadership Institute of the City College of New York (CCNY). She received her M.A. and 6th Year Certification from New York University. She was a recipient of the ITT Golden Apple Award and is a member of Channel Thirteen and the New York State Aerospace Education Council.
Maurice Averner, J.D., Ph.D., is in the Life Sciences Division of NASA where he is program manager of the Advanced Life Support Program. He received his undergraduate training in chemistry and biology at Brooklyn College of the University of the City of New York, graduate training in cell and molecular biology at Brandeis University, and postgraduate training at Yale University and the University of Colorado Medical School. Participation in a summer workshop in terraforming at NASA's Ames Research Center caused him to shift his scientific interests to issues of ecology, including global ecology and bioregenerative life support systems. After several years conducting research on laboratory and computer CELSS models as a staff member of the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of New Hampshire, he moved to NASA Headquarters where he assumed his present position.
Keith C. Baker is executive vice president and a member of the board of directors for the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. He holds a bachelor of Arts degree in Earth sciences from the University of New Hampshire where he was also commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in the United States Air Force via the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC); he also holds a master of human relations degree from the University of Oklahoma. Keith has served in various capacities at the Aeronautical Systems Division of Air Force Systems Command, WrightPatterson AFB, Ohio; the U.S. Air Force's Comptroller School, Sheppard AFB, Texas; Headquarters, Strategic Air Command, Offutt AFB, Nebraska; and Aviano AB, Italy. Among his accomplishments at the Aeronautical Systems Division where he served in several key comptroller positions, Keith implemented emerging automated program network scheduling concepts into a wide variety of ongoing efforts, including KC10 and KC135 aerial refueling aircraft programs worth several hundred million dollars. Since his retirement from the Air Force in 1993, Keith has been serving AMSAT in an increased capacity. In addition to his duties as the corporation's executive vice president, he is also the business manager for the new AMSAT Phase 3D satellite, the largest, most complex, and most expensive Amateur Radio satellite project ever attempted. Keith is also president of KCB Associates, a management consulting and education firm in the Dayton, Ohio, area. He was first licensed as an Amateur Radio Operator in 1976, and presently holds an Extra Class license.
Victoria Beckner is the director of external affairs for LunaCorp, a company formed in 1989 to pursue private space exploration. Before coming to LunaCorp, Ms. Beckner worked as a contractor for NASA's Microgravity Science and Applications Division. There she led an aggressive public outreach effort as the division's publications editor and media manager. She is the founder and former editor of Microgravity News. Prior to her work in the space industry, Ms. Beckner worked as a political consultant and legislative aide, and has ten years tapdancing experience.
Kira Belkin teaches middle school science at Far Brook School in Short Hills, N.J. She is a Teacher Resource Agent for the American Astronomical Society.
Ms. Bevis is the director and vice president of the X Prize Foundation. She was the director of Project Space Voyage, which in 1985 marketed orbital trips through Society Expeditions.
Tom Billings, the president of the Institute for Teleoperated Space Development, has been involved in space education, space advocacy, and research for 15 years. He served as president of the local chapter of NSS, the Oregon L-5 Society, worked for political support for Single-Stage-To-Orbit technologies, and has run field experiences for Young Astronauts, among many other programs. Tom participated in research for NASA, Lockheed, and others, done by the Oregon L-5's Lunar Base Research Team, to add use of lunar lavatubes as base sites on the Moon to the types of sites under consideration. Being president of the Institute for Teleoperated Space Development (ITSD) is a new responsibility since the founding of the Institute in May 1995 with private funding for an initial two-year startup period.
Sheryl L. Bishop, Ph.D., is a social psychologist in the Department of Preventive, Occupational and Environmental Medicine and The Center for Aerospace Medicine and Physiology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX.
Terry Bisson is the author of five novels, including Voyage to the Red Planet (Morrow, 1990) and most recently Pirates of the Universe (Tor, 1996). Bisson's short story "Bears Discover Fire" (published in Isaac Asimov's Magazine of Science Fiction) swept almost every honor in the SF field in 1990-91, including both the Nebula and Hugo Awards. Several of his stories have been optioned for movies and produced on stage at New York's West Bank Theater. A short fiction collection, Bears Discover Fire & Other Stories, was published by Tor in the fall of 1993. He teaches writing at the New School in New York City, works as an editorial and copy consultant with HarperPrism, and is a member of the Authors Guild and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Alex Bonnici obtained his degree in physics in 1995. He teaches physics at the Manhattan Center for Science and Math in Manhattan.
Stephen Brod is a Ph.D. student at the University of Arizona's Space Engineering Research Center, where he recently obtained his master's degree. He is continuing work on the use of solid oxide electrolysis for us in In-Situ Propellant Production systems. This work is being done with JPL and Lockheed Martin. He is the recipient of an Arizona Space Grant Fellowship for 1995-1997. He has recently presented talks on ISRU technologies to the Solar System Exploration Roadmap Working Group at Cal Tech, and at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
After having spent several years in the business world, Dominic Cammarota completed his B.A. and began teaching in 1991. Since then, he has completed his M.A. in science education and plans to achieve a Ph.D. Currently, he teaches Earth science at Wagner JHS 167 in New York City. He attributes his success to studying Dale Carnegie Methods.
Dr. Cassenti is a senior principal engineer at United Technologies Research Center. Dr. Cassenti received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the Aerospace Engineering Department at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He was employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories for five years where he worked on a variety of military and commercial products. At United Technologies Research Center, he is a member of the Applied Mechanics Research group, where he has worked for the last seventeen years in the areas of solid mechanics, advanced materials, supercomputing, and advanced propulsion.
Suman Chakrabarti got his B.S. in aeronautics from Caltech in 1989. During that time, he was one of the initial six students to take part in the SURFSAT satellite program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This satellite was ultimately launched on November 4, 1995. Chakrabarti got his M.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University in 1991. His thesis topic was in fluid mechanics, "Development of a DigitalBased Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) Technique." He expects to obtain his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Penn State University at the end of 1996 and is currently doing work in highdensity, hightemperature, plasma physics with propulsion applications under Dr. Gerald Smith in the Department of Physics.
Max received his B.S. in mechanical engineering at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York, in 1994, then joined Honeybee Robotics as a project engineer.
James Chestek is a retired GE areospace engineer who has been in the aerospace business for 38 years. His work has included a variety of satellite system projects. Mr. Chestek won the highest GE Space Division award for a mission concept to explore Mars. His work has included concepts for solar power satellites and advanced Earth observation, as well as proposals for a Mars lander, a lunar robot, and a solar probe.
Mr. Claybaugh is the business manager for NASA's Reusable Launch Vehicle Program. He reports to the director, Space Transportation Division, Office of Space Access and Technology, where he is responsible for development of government/industry business arrangements focused on improving the economics of the Space Transportation industry. He is charged with understanding the cause of differences between government and commercial cost estimating, contracting, and management practices, the economics of the Space Transportation business, and the nature and timing of new opportunities in that business. Previously, Bill was special assistant for commercial programs to the Associate Administrator for Advanced Concepts and Technology where he was directed to lower the cost of small satellite launches, which effort led to the X34 program. Prior to that assignment, Bill was director for external initiatives in NASA's Office of Exploration. Prior to his tenure at NASA, Mr. Claybaugh served in a series of technology-related corporate environments, including duties as president of IComp, Inc., a telecommunications startup, chief financial officer at American Rocket Company, and vice president of the Space Division at the University City Science Center, the nation's largest urban research park. He also served as a partner in Space Fund I, L.P., a venture-capital firm which invested in aerospace-related opportunities. In his various capacities, he has been responsible for overseeing research programs with total funding in excess of $20 million; he has designed, developed, and installed complete financial management control systems, and he has raised, in total, over $2.4 million in direct investment funding. Mr. Claybaugh holds a dual undergraduate degree from California State University, Dominguez Hills, in history and Asian studies and a master's in management from Yale University. He is a senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a member of the American Astronautical Society and the Space Foundation. For the latter organization, he has served as a founding member of the board of directors of the New York City Space Business Roundtable and as chairman of the Southern California Space Business Roundtable. Bill has been an active investor and deal maker in small aerospace companies; immediately before joining NASA, he arranged the sale of Globesat, Inc., a manufacturer of small satellites, to EER Systems, Inc., the owner of Space Services, Inc., a space launch provider.
Over the last 23 years, Yvonne A. Clearwater, Ph.D., has worked professionally as a design research psychologist, applying formal research methods and theory from the behavioral and social sciences to the design of complex environments with specialized human requirements, ranging from challenging architectural problems to advanced informational environments and products. She is currently working at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, California.
Dr. Cox was NASA's first space science lecturer and was director of public relations for Project Vanguard. He has already written more than 10 books on space and more than 200 articles in local and national publications.
Fresh out of college, Mr. Creel was thrust into a high-speed and challenging engineering task-design, test verification, and mission support for the thermal control system of a new kind of spacecraft, the Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). Success on this project was acknowledged by several performance citations, which culminated in receipt of the Astronaut's "Silver Snoopy" award. Other thermal engineering projects at NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, included the Laser Geodynamic Satellite (LAGEOS), the High Energy Astronomical Observatory (HEAO) and XRay Calibration Test Facility, and extensive thermal/stress analytical work on Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) internal flow components. From NASA, Mr. Creel moved to system engineering and technical assistance work on several Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) Star Wars spacebased defense projects. These included: the STARLAB laser tracking and pointing experiment program, acquiring ballistic targets for the UltraViolet Plume Instrument (UVPI) on board the Low Power Atmospheric Compensation Experiment (LACE) satellite, and the Brilliant Pebbles experiment test program. Work on the latter project included management of a multidiscipline engineering review team for a test launch vehicle and deployment as science manager on the USN Redstone range support ship at Wake Island.
David Criswell is director of Inst. Space Systems Operations and associate director of the Texas Space Grant Consortium. He received his Ph.D. in space physics and astronomy from Rice University. He holds a B.S. and an M.S. in physics from University of North Texas. He has worked for TRW Inc., Houston, the Lunar and Planetary Institute, the University of California, San Diego, and the University Space Research Association. His current focus is post-graduate research programs between the University of Houston and NASA-JSC. His long-term interest is in space solar power and lunar industrialization.
Dr. Diamandis is the president and chairman of the X Prize Foundation. He is also the founder and a trustee of the International Space University.
Mr. Draper has worked as a development engineer and manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for over 30 years. He holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a master's degree from the California Institute of Technology. Among the planetary spacecraft he has worked on are: Mariner 4, Mariner 5, Voyager, Galileo, and Mariner Mark II. He is currently deputy project manager for the Cassini Project.
Mr. Duveen is an educational consultant who developed the Balloon Project and has implemented aerospace programs in schools, camps, child care centers, and community groups. He gives workshops in the U.S. and Canada and teaches the Balloon Project as a teacher education course for graduate students at Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY.
Mrs. Emerson has been actively involved in aerospace education for more than twenty-five years, working in both the classroom and the community. As both a mentor teacher and a "Teacher of the Year" for her district, she has conducted numerous teacher training and in-service programs. Mrs. Emerson has served as a presenter at a variety of educational conferences, including the National Congress on Aviation and Space Education. Her experience includes work with Young Astronauts and Boy and Girl Scout programs as well as with students in the classroom. She is a recipient of many awards for her aerospace work, including the national Frank G. Brewer--Civil Air Patrol Anniversary Award and the National Congress Crown Circle for Aerospace Education Leadership Award. Currently working as a curriculum developer for aerospace education, Mrs. Emerson also serves as the Aerospace Education Program Manager for National Headquarters, Civil Air Patrol. She is a member of many professional organizations, including the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, the National Space Society, Civil Air Patrol, and Wings of Fame, an association of master aerospace educators.
By 1978, as an English teacher at Junior High School 22 in Manhattan, it was quite clear to Joe Fairclough that there was not much interest in "Dick & Jane and see Spot run," nor anyone learning or being helped by these standard methods. The opportunity for change was there. Joe took advantage of the situation to bring a new program first to New York City, and then the nation. After a full year of work writing and planning, EDUCATION THROUGH COMMUNICATION was presented to the superintendent of Community School District #1 in Manhattan. Once the superintendent understood Ham Radio and that the program would be free, with all costs absorbed by the newly formed Radio Club of JHS 22, the new concept was heartily approved. EDUCOMM was off to a blazing start and fast pace that continues today. Fairclough is now the president and CEO of The Radio Club of JHS 22 NYC, Inc., the nation's only non-profit organization working to improve and enhance the education of young people via the Amateur Radio. This unique approach to education creates an atmosphere where kids fight to get into class rather than out, which in itself is worthwhile enough in today's educational climate.
Dr. Farquhar is the mission manager for the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) project, and has a long list of accomplishments. In the 70s and 80s, he was with NASA at Goddard, and in the 90s, he's been with Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He is a recognized expert in the areas of orbital mechanics, mission design, and overall systems design of low-cost space science missions. His flight missions also include Giotto and Sakigake. In 1992, asteroid #5256 was named Farquhar. He holds a Ph.D. in astronautical sciences from Stanford University, an M.S. in engineering from UCLA, and a B.S. in aeronautical engineering from University of Illinois.
Ross Fleisig is president of the aerospace systems consultancy of Therus Dynamics, Inc. He holds a bachelor of aeronautical engineering and a master of science in applied mechanics from Polytechnic University. He is an associate fellow and 199596 Distinguished Lecturer of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; a member of the International Academy of Astronautics; a fellow, past president, and director of the American Astronautical Society; a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the British Interplanetary Society; a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers; and is listed in the Who's Who in America.
Lou Friedman is chairman of the Planetary Society.
Dr. Fulda is professor of political science at Fairmont State College where he teaches a yearly course on space policy. He is also president of the Institute for the Social Science Study of Space, and a governor-appointed, West Virginia delegate to the Aerospace States Association and a member of its Policy Committee. Dr. Fulda is past director of the L-5 Society and the National Space Institute; an associate fellow of the AIAA and member of its Public Policy Committee; a member of six other U.S. and foreign space organizations; the State of West Virginia coordinator for Spacause and recipient of the 1993 Spacepac Outstanding Service Award. He has testified in Congress on U.S.-Russia space relations.
Besides being the principal investigator and inspiration of Spacewatch, Tom Gehrels is a professor of planetary sciences at the University of Arizona, a Sarabhai Professor at the Physics Research Laboratory in India, and has edited the 1994 publication: Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids. In 1996 alone, he's had articles in the March issue of Scientific American and the March/April issue of Final Frontier. For more information, consult his delightful autobiography, The Glassy Sea.
Dr. Glaser, vice president for Advanced Technology (retired), was associated with Arthur D. Little, Inc., from 1955 to 1994 and is now a consultant to the company. He was the project manager for the Apollo Laser Retroreflector arrays, the Lunar Heat Probes, and the Lunar Gravimeter. He was granted a patent on the Solar Power Satellite in 1973. Dr. Glaser served on NASA committees including the Lunar Enterprise Case Study in 1988. He formed the SUNSAT Energy Council in 1978 and is its chairman. He also chaired the Space Power Committee of the IAF (19841989) and was president of the International Solar Energy Society (19681969). Dr. Glaser is a director of the National Space Society. He is a fellow of the AIAA and AAAS and is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics. He was inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame of the U.S. Space Foundation in 1996. Dr. Glaser has more than 130 publications, books, and patents in the fields of space technology, solar energy applications, lunar surface characteristics, thermal protection systems and materials, thermal properties measurements, thermal imaging techniques, technology transfer, and EVA protection systems.
Ellen Goldstein has been involved for over ten years in aerospace education. She developed an aerospace program for the New York City Board of Education on the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum. She participated in Newmast (1985) and was the Young Astronauts' Teacher of the Year (1990). Ellen is director of Aerospace Leadership Institute, an NSF-funded program at the City College of New York (CCNY) since 1993 and project coordinator for NASA, RTRC.
Robert is a systems integration engineer for NSTAR and was formerly Galileo Deputy Engineering Team Chief.
Joseph Graves is currently the lead engineer for the Ranger Neutral Buoyancy Vehicle. He wrote: "Development of a Low-Cost Free-Flying Telerobotic Space Flight Vehicle" (co-author) for the 43rd Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, Washington, DC, August, 1992; and "Ranger Telerobotic Flight Experiment Program Update" for the SSI/Princeton Space Manufacturing Conference, Princeton, NJ, May, 1995. His current research is in nonlinear adaptive control of free-flying and free-floating vehicles.
W. Michael Hawes currently serves as the senior engineer for the International Space Station Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. His responsibilities include providing engineering and programmatic assessments of the Space Station Program and its development progress to the Associate Administrator for Space Flight, NASA. Prior to this assignment, Hawes headed the Systems Engineering and Integration Branch, Chief Engineer's Office, Office of Space Flight, and was Manager for Utilization and Operations, Space Station Freedom Program Office, in Reston, VA. Prior to joining the Space Station Office in Reston, Hawes served in several technical and managerial positions at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. His responsibilities include the integration of experiments and commercial satellites into the Space Shuttle. Hawes served as the Payload Officer in the Shuttle Mission Control Center for several missions from STS-5 through STS-61B. In addition, Hawes served on the Mission Control team for the Skylab Reentry team in 1979. Throughout his career Hawes has received several NASA achievement awards and was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in 1991. He received a bachelor of science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1978. He is also a graduate in program management from the Defense Systems Management College, Ft. Belvior, VA. He is currently pursuing a master of science degree in engineering management from the George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Prof. David J. Helfand received his undergraduate degree from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts working with the 1993 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Prof. Joseph Taylor. He came to Columbia University in 1977 where, for the last ten years, he has been chair of the Department of Astronomy and codirector of the Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory. His research spans a variety of fields ranging from the study of nearby neutron stars to the largescale structure of the Universe. He is currently a member of the Space Telescope Advisory Committee, NASA's Committee on the Structure and Evolution of the Universe, and the National Academy Task Group on Space Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Martin I. Hoffert is professor of physics and founder of the Earth Systems Group at New York University. His undergraduate education was at the University of Michigan from which he received a B.S. in aeronautical engineering. He also holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in astronautics from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and an M.A. in liberal studies from the New School for Social Research. His research has emphasized global environmental change, renewable energy technologies, biogeochemical cycles, and policy implications of technological change. A proponent of space power for environmental reasons, Dr. Hoffert's theoretical work on climatic change from humanity's greenhouse gas emissions contributed to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (the "Rio Treaty"). He was recently elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his work in atmospheric science and oceanography.
Dr. Harry W. Janes is a research professor at Rutgers University and director of the New Jersey EcoComplex. His specialty is controlled environment agriculture. Dr. Janes has published extensively (80+ publications) on environment-plant interactions. He has worked with various groups in the area of value-added agriculture, helping develop agricultural businesses for high-value specialty markets. Dr. Janes' research is supported by NASA. He has contributed to the design of their controlled ecological life support system program. His research is being used to help integrate plants/agriculture into a complete bioregenerative life support system for space, using plants to not only produce food but to clean the environment. Lessons learned from his NASA research will translate into significant opportunities for further development in New Jersey's EcoComplex.
Alan Ladwig is a Presidential appointee serving as the associate administrator for Policy and Plans at NASA Headquarters. The Office oversees the analysis, formulation, and implementation of NASA policies, longrange strategic planning activities, and the History Office. He began his political tenure in October, 1993, as the senior policy advisor in the Office of the Administrator. Prior to his appointment at NASA, Ladwig was a senior policy analyst for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in Washington, DC. From 1981 through 1989, Ladwig served in a variety of management positions at NASA Headquarters. He was the Director of Special Projects for the Office of Exploration and served on the Administrator's Long Range Planning Task Force that produced the report Leadership and America's Future in Space. Ladwig was manager of the Space Flight Participant Program (including the Teacher in Space and Journalist in Space Projects), the Shuttle's Middeck Experiments Program, and the Shuttle Student Involvement Program, and served as executive officer in the Office of Space Flight. He is the recipient of two NASA Exceptional Service Medals. Throughout his career, he has been an active participant in NASA's Speakers Bureau and has frequently appeared on television and radio programs. He has also authored numerous articles on the space program for general interest and professional periodicals and coauthored a chapter on long-range planning in Blueprint for Space. Ladwig served in the U.S. Army from 19721974 and was stationed in Athens, Greece. He attended Southern Illinois University where he received an M.S. in higher education and a B.S. in speech.
Dr. Landis is a scientist with the Ohio Aerospace Institute on permanent assignment to the NASA Lewis Research Center. He has published over a hundred scientific papers in the fields of photovoltaics and astronautics, holds four patents on photovoltaic device designs, and organized and served as the technical chairman of the Vision-21 symposium. He recently developed scientific instrumentation for the upcoming Mars Pathfinder probe. Landis is also a science fiction and fantasy author of over 40 published short stories and novelettes and 20 poems. His "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" won the Nebula award in 1990 for best short story; in 1992 his short story "A Walk in the Sun" won the Hugo award. His fantasy "The Kingdom of Cats and Birds" is a finalist for the 1996 Nebula award. His collection Myths, Legends, and True History was published in 1991 by Pulphouse as part of their Author's Choice Monthly series.
Mr. Larson is an author of science books, such as Twisting Gravity and The Relativity Myth, as well as techno-thrillers, science fiction, and business books. He retired from Sperry-Univac where he worked as an overseas engineering manager.
Professor Sue Lorraine Lavorata, M.B.A., is an adjunct college lecturer who teaches business and aviation economics at several Long Island colleges, such as Dowling, SUNY Stony Brook, SUNY Farmingdale, and 5 Towns College. Professor Lavorata also lectures on space spinoffs, artificial intelligence, and how space benefits the disabled, as well as on disability rights. Professor Lavorata is also the president/founder of the Suffolk Challengers for Space, NSS chapter, and assisted on the education track for ISDC'96. She also has life-long experience with severe neurological disabilities.
Chris Lewicki is chair of SEDSUSA and a Webmaster of www.seds.org.
Bruce has been interested in orbital transport, habitats, and space settlement ever since Gerry O'Neil showed we are not limited to a "zero-sum game" here on Earth. Bruce is the northeast representative on the NSS Board of Directors and a long-time active person in the Boston chapter. He distributes the "SpaceViews" NSS e-mail newsletter. He is also a senior fellow and volunteer for the Space Studies Institute. Bruce's Mars habitat designs were used by Kim Stanley Robinson in the book Red Mars. He works with GPS software at Draper Labs and has a degree in architecture and computer-aided design from MIT.
Dr. Matloff is an adjunct professor and author of many papers on interstellar travel. He is co-author of The Starflight Handbook and author of The Urban Astronomer and Telescope Powers.
Guy "Smiley" McArthur is a Webmaster of www.seds.org.
Charles E. Miller is vice president of the Space Frontier Foundation. Mr. Miller makes his living as a consultant in economic development, political action, and leadership development in Vallejo, California.
Patricia Morrison is a visionary who has been following dreams, and making them real, since she was ten years old. Current dreams taking form include building an artist's community on the Mendocino Coast of California, writing and producing a three-part documentary that looks at how the myths we live structure our world, and finally, establishing the Crane Dance Network, an international network of co-creative individuals, in diverse fields, who are coming together to explore mutually supportive ways of revisioning the future, building community, and finding solutions to some of the innumerable problems that threaten Life on this planet, and beyond.
Michael J. Neufeld is a curator in the Department of Aeronautics of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. He is the author of The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era.
Ray Noonan is currently completing his dissertation for the Ph.D. (partly on which this presentation is based) in the Human Sexuality Program at New York University and is the director of the Sex Institute, an educational consulting firm in New York City. He is co-author and editor of Does Anyone Still Remember When Sex Was Fun? Positive Sexuality in the Age of AIDS, a supplementary reader used in colleges across the U.S., the third edition of which will be available in the fall of 1996, and is an adjunct instructor in sexuality and health education at the Fashion Institute of Technology-State University of New York (FIT-SUNY) in Manhattan. He is also the president of ParaGraphic Artists in New York City, which specializes in World Wide Web design and administration, desktop publishing, and other computer, publishing, and graphics-related services. Ray has been responsible for the ISDC'96 Web site.
Richard S. Nowakowski, Ph.D., received his doctorate in cell and developmental biology from Harvard University in 1976. He did postdoctoral work at Duke University and at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany. In 1981, he joined the faculty at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and is now an associate professor at the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, New Jersey.
Noel Nunes is a graduate of August Martin High School in Queens and Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, CT. He has four years experience teaching Earth science at I.S. 296 in Bushwick, Brooklyn. After completing a program at the Aerospace Leadership Institute at CCNY, Noel made a commitment to enlighten students to the opportunities available to them in the field of aeronautics and aerospace.
John A. O'Hara is an aerospace science and physics instructor at Kearny High School, Kearny, New Jersey, and is the author of Corporation Physics and Corporation Aerospace.
As a public policy analyst, Dr. Pace works for the RAND Corporation's Critical Technologies Institute (CTI) in Washington, DC. CTI is a federally funded research and development center for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). His research interests include space policy, technology policy, and international competitiveness, and he is responsible for spacerelated studies by CTI that support OSTP. He recently completed a major study on national policy for the Global Positioning System (GPS). In addition, Dr. Pace has conducted research for the Joint Chiefs of Staff on military space issues. From 1990 to 1993, Dr. Pace served as the deputy director and acting director of the Office of Space Commerce, in the Office of the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Commerce. He represented the Department in interagency working groups of the National Space Council, administration reviews of spacerelated legislation, and advisory committees on a wide variety of space issues. Dr. Pace coordinated space policy issues across the Department and participated in efforts affecting export controls for space technologies, space trade negotiations with Japan, Russia, China, and Europe, the licensing process for private remote sensing systems, missile proliferation, and the U.S. space industrial base. Scott Pace received a bachelor of science degree in physics from Harvey Mudd College in 1980; master's degrees in aeronautics and astronautics and technology and policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982; and a doctorate in policy analysis from the RAND Graduate School in 1989. He previously worked at Rockwell International as a project engineer in the Space Transportation Systems Division and at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on liquid behavior in microgravity. While at JPL, he served as a flight crew member during zerog operations of KC135 aircraft. Scott Pace is the executive vicepresident of the National Space Society (NSS), chairman of its Policy Committee, and a member of the Board of Directors. As an NSS volunteer, he coordinates the development of Society positions and analyses of national and international space policies.
From 1982 to the present, Dr. Rudy Pohl, Ed.D., conducted hundreds of presentations of lunar samples (from NASA) to more than 59,000 students in the United States, Canada, and eight European countries. He has participated in the Teacher in Space Conference (1986); 20th Anniversary of Apollo 11 (Huntsville, AL, 1989); Association of Space Explorers Banquet (Washington, DC, 1992); 25th Anniversary of Moon Landing (Washington, DC, 1994); and 20th Anniversary of Apollo-Soyuz and Mars II (Washington, DC, 1995). He is a member of the National Space Society; Founding Member, Challenger Society; National Education Association (life); Council for Exceptional Children (life); and the Planetary Society.
Seth Potter received a bachelor's degree in physics (with a minor in mathematics) from Columbia University in 1979. He continued at Columbia, receiving a master's degree in physics in 1981, and briefly studied electrical engineering. After gaining industrial experience in radar systems and solid state engineering at Westinghouse and United Technologies, he resumed graduate studies and received a doctorate in applied science from New York University in 1993. Since then, he has continued his work as a research scientist in the Program in Applied Science (Department of Physics) at NYU. His work involves wireless power transmission, solar power satellites, Earth observation satellites, and global energy issues. Dr. Potter has published a number of articles and technical papers on energy and space technology. He has given talks on these topics at ISDC'94, ISDC'95, as well as several other space conferences. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Space Studies Institute, and the National Space Society. Dr. Potter serves on the board of directors of New York City's NSS chapter.
Steven D. Ratts recently accepted a position as senior staff engineer for the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) at the University of Arizona. His work at LPL is on the Thermally Evolved Gas Analyzer which will fly on the Mars '98 Lander. Steven was an aerospace engineering Ph.D. student at the Space Engineering Research Center (SERC) of the University of Arizona, working on the design and testing of multiple-cell solid oxide electrolysis devices using single crystal zirconia to produce O2 from CO2. He recently presented talks on ISRU technologies to the Solar System Exploration Roadmap Working Group at Cal Tech and to the University of Arizona.
Presently, Willie Mae Redd is an elementary school teacher in the New York City school system. She has taught third-grade students for six years. Willie Mae is also a participant in the Aerospace Science Leadership Institute and the science, math, and technology (S.M.A.R.T.) initiatives to promote an interdisciplinary approach to teaching that fosters change in the way children and adults are taught and learn. Prior to coming to the Board of Education, she was employed the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. In addition to her teaching credentials, Willie Mae has a master's degree in business administration with a concentration in management information systems.
Prof. Roberts, a member of the NSS Policy Committee, is chair of the American Bar Association's Committee on International Aerospace Law. He is also the chairman of the X Prize Law and Policy Committee.
Thomas F. Rogers is a physicist, a communications engineer, a private investor, the president of his family's operating foundation, the Sophron Foundation, and the president of the Space Transport Association. He holds B.Sc. (Providence College) and M.A. (Boston University) degrees in physics and has held professional positions with university, industrial, government, and not-for-profit organizations, including senior Federal government positions. His scientific work has focused on ultrasonic propagation effects in solids and electromagnetic propagation effects in the Earth's atmosphere. At the Air Force Cambridge Research Center, he organized both a radiowave propagation and a communications laboratory. While there, he was a member of the group that first compressed video information and transmitted digital information via telephone lines, and he headed a national group that worked on the guidance of our first intercontinental ballistic missile, the Atlas. He also organized and headed the Communications Division of MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, which transmitted the first television signals via an orbiting spacecraft, establishing a microwave circuit that spanned the United States, and advanced communication with remote, submerged submarines. As a deputy director of Defense Research and Engineering in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Mr. Rogers was responsible for research and development supporting the command and control of our nuclear strike forces. He provided the basic design of the world's first global satellite communication system and oversaw its acquisition and initial deployment. He initiated the work on mobile satellite communications. He conceived of using satellites for navigation and position-fixing as eventually realized in GPS-Navstar, and he supported the earliest work on high-energy lasers. He has been an advisor to the Departments of Defense, State, and Commerce, the FAA, NASA, the Voice of America/U.S. Information Agency, and the FCC. He was a member of NASA's Space Program Advisory Council and the National Research Council's Space Applications Board. He directed a study of Civil Space Stations and the U.S. Future in Space for Congress as a consultant to its Office of Technology Assessment. He has been particularly concerned with reducing the cost of the civil space infrastructure, and using space for international radio broadcasting and biomedical research. The Sophron Foundation, of which he is president, supports novel civil space initiatives, and is now emphasizing the conduct of life sciences/biomedical research in low-Earth orbit of particular importance to the general public. Mr. Rogers is also a trustee of the X Prize Foundation.
The aerospace engineer credited with designing the world's first commercial home satellite TV receiver, Dr. H. Paul Shuch serves as executive director of the SETI League, Inc., leaders in a scientific Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Professor of electronics at the Pennsylvania College of Technology (Penn State), Dr. Shuch has taught engineering for more than 20 years, is the author of over 100 publications, and designed the patented BiDCAS aircraft anti-collision radar. He is the recipient of several national awards, has served as a National Science Foundation advisor, and is a program evaluator for the American Council on Education.
Robert L. Staehle is manager of the Pluto Express Preproject at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a NASA installation operated by the California Institute of Technology. His career in space exploration began with his student experiment, Bacteria Aboard Skylab, which flew aboard the first and last missions of the United States' first space station. While earning his bachelor of science degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering at Purdue University, Mr. Staehle worked as an engineering trainee at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. After graduation, he came to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he worked initially assisting with Voyager's Jupiter encounter planning for the photopolarimeter instrument. He then contributed to a variety of advanced studies in lunar and planetary exploration, and as a member of the Mars Underground, he led development of mission and vehicle concepts for sending the first human expedition to Mars. Mr. Staehle worked for seven years on Space Station Freedom, the last two years of this period managing JPL's Pasadena contributions to that program. He subsequently set about learning from a variety of industries how to dramatically cut mission development costs and lead time, an area of interest which led naturally to the opportunity to begin development of the first mission to Pluto within a very constrained fiscal environment. Mr. Staehle is also president of the World Space Foundation, sponsor of the Solar Sail and Asteroid Projects. In his spare time he enjoys hiking, photography, and mountain biking.
Paul Stengel has been a member of Challenger Center's International Faculty since 1991 and conducts "Touching the Future" aerospace workshops for teachers. For the past three years he has served as state coordinator for the NASA/NSTA Space Science Student Involvement Program (SSIP) and in 1986 was a Teacher in Space finalist in New York State. It was during his participation in NASA's NEWMAST workshop at Langley Research Center in 1985 that he met Christa McAuliffe. Paul teaches Regents and Advanced Placement Physics courses at Shoreham-Wading River High School on eastern Long Island.
John K. Strickland, Jr., was born in NYC in 1943, lived in western New York from 1948-1976, and now lives in Austin, Texas. He has a B.A. in anthropology and another in computer science. He joined the ARS/AIAA in 1961, and L5 and NSI in 1975. Currently, he is the Heinlein Award coordinator, chairman of the Austin Space Frontier Society, the Chapter Assembly representative from Region 3, secretary of Chapter Assembly, and is active in access to space and space solar power groups.
Ian Randal Strock is the editor of Artemis Magazine and the vice president (publications) of the Lunar Resources Company. He also serves the Artemis Society International as director of publications. The Lunar Resources Company, in conjunction with the Artemis Society International, is sponsoring the Artemis Project--a private venture to build a commercial manned Moon base, with the first flight planned in the next ten years. Artemis Magazine, part of the LRC, will be a bi-monthly magazine of science and fiction, debuting by 1997. Prior to coming to Artemis, Ian was the associate editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact and Asimov's Science Fiction magazines for six years, and an editor at Boston's Daily Free Press. He is currently serving as membership officer of Greater New York Mensa, and was previously GNYM's president. He is also an active member of SFWA. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Analog, Games, Science News, the Mensa Bulletin, The Sterling Web, and Tangent. He co-edited 1991's Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy (St. Martin's), and was profiled in the February, 1996, issue of Analog.
William Swart is dean of New Jersey Institute of Technology's Newark College of Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in industrial and systems engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. in industrial engineering with honors from Clemson University. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Florida. Immediately prior to joining NJIT in 1994, he was chairman of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems at the University of Central Florida. Under his leadership, the Department was named the 1993 Outstanding Public Institution of the Year by the Central Florida Council of Professional Societies. The Department also received the 1993 Davis Productivity Award from Florida Tax Watch, Inc. for its efforts to improve state government services to Florida taxpayers. While at the University of Central Florida, he worked closely with the Kennedy Space Center to establish NASA's first industrial engineering function to enhance the efficiency of Space Shuttle processing. His efforts were recognized through a NASA/JFK Group Achievement Award and a JFK Center Director Presentation. He has had other faculty and administrative positions with a number of academic institutions including the University of Miami, California State University at Northridge, and Florida International University. He has also been a visiting professor at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey and an invited lecturer at King Abdullassiz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Swart also has had substantial industry experience and has served as a consultant to a number of organizations. His success in bringing academic knowledge and industrial practice together has been recognized by The Institute of Management Sciences through the Franz Edelman Award and by the Institute of Industrial Engineers through its Operations Research Division 1994 Applications Award.
Darlina Swartz has an extensive background in both scientific research and education. She has conducted investigative research in plant physiology and microbial genetics laboratories and has been involved in extensive research of state and national education standards. Darlina has developed and implemented integrated science curriculum for grades K-6; directed science fairs for grades 2-8; and taught science for grades K-9. She manages the day-to-day operations of the education department, including the Space Discovery graduate courses and Teaching with Space in-services. Ms. Swartz is the Foundation liaison in the business partnership with the Colorado Statewide Systemic Initiative (CONNECT).
Dr. Thagard will talk about the events of his four-month-long mission on the Mir space station, e.g., Progress and Spectr arrivals, five space walks, etc., as well as the Shuttle-Mir science program which consisted of 28 experiments. Most of those experiments dealt with the physiological (including cardiovascular, hematological, vestibular, and musculoskeletal) effects of long-duration spaceflight. Time permitting, Dr. Thagard will discuss the important effects potentially impacting ultimate mission duration and give specific information about his personal data from these experiments, i.e., bone loss, anemia, etc.Because of flight connection delays with American Airlines at Dallas-Ft. Worth, Dr. Thagard will not appear as scheduled. We apologize to those who were looking forward to his presentation.
Norman E. Thagard, M.D., has flown on five Shuttle missions, accumulating over 140 days in space, with his 115-day mission in 1995 on Russia's Mir space station being the longest ever to date for an American. The first American to fly in the Russian space program, Dr. Thagard conducted 28 experiments in human physiology before returning to Earth aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis. In 1992, he flew on the STS-42 mission aboard the Shuttle Discovery, which investigated the effects of microgravity on materials processing and in the life sciences. Of the 55 major experiments in the International Microgravity Laboratory-1, the effects of zero- and microgravity on the growth of protein and semiconductor crystals, as well as the biological effects on plants, tissues, bacteria, insects, and human vestibular response were conducted. He also flew on STS-30 aboard the Shuttle Atlantis in 1989, which deployed the Magellan Venus-exploration spacecraft, in addition to conducting studies of fluids, chemistry, and electrical storms; STS-51B on the Spacelab-3 science mission aboard the Shuttle Challenger in 1985, which deployed the NUSAT satellite, and included his taking care of the 24 rats and two squirrel monkeys contained in the Research Animal Holding Facility, and other experiments; and STS-7 aboard the Shuttle Challenger in 1983, during which he conducted various medical tests and collected data on physiological changes associated with astronaut adaptation to space and retrieved the rotating SPAS-01 satellite using the Canadian-built Remote Manipulator System (RMS). The recipient of numerous awards for his military and aerospace accomplishments, Dr. Thagard retired from NASA in 1996 and is currently Visiting Professor and Director of College Relations for Florida A&M University-Florida State University (FAMU-FSU) College of Engineering, Tallahassee, Florida.
Jeffrey Van Cleve is a research associate at Cornell University. His principal job responsibility is the development of infrared sensor arrays, sensitive over the 5- to 40-micron range, for space-based and ground-based scientific instruments. He also does system engineering for the Space Infrared Telescope Infrared Spectrograph (SIRTF-IRS): analysis of optical designs, generation of spacecraft and instrument requirements from science requirements, and some interface questions. His most recent instrument project is SCORE, the SIRTF-Cornell Echelle spectrograph. His scientific interest extends principally to objects on which people or machines are likely to land in the next 1000 years.
Joan Vernikos, Ph.D., is director of the Life Sciences Division at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC. She was formerly Associate Director of Space Research and Chief (Acting) of the Life Sciences Division at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, California. Dr. Vernikos' research has focused on understanding the endocrine, neurohumoral, and behavioral mechanism underlying the response to stress and applying that knowledge to operational conditions in aeronautics and space. A fundamental theme in her work has been the interaction of the physiological baseline, biological rhythms, and the stress response. She was awarded the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement for her work describing the physiological cost of the response to stress and the physiological concepts underlying coping. She has applied these concepts in the development of predictive and diagnostic tests and to understand the mechanisms responsible for post-flight orthostatic hypotension, using head-down bedrest as the analog.
Robin C. P. Vernuccio has been teaching experiential science, specializing in space science for nearly a decade. She has taught students and educators from coast to coast on national TV and at teacher's conferences. Robin Vernuccio is director of Education Encounters and serves as assistant director for the Education Committee of Space Frontier Society of NY, as well as their Young Astronauts coordinator. She is a member of the National Space Society, the Planetary Society, and National Association of Rocketry.
Mr. Victer has 38 years of aerospace experience and is currently deputy program director of the RLV/X-33 Program of the Space Systems Division of Rockwell International. He has also worked with NASP, the Space Station, and Shuttle programs.
Robert Wexelbaum has over forty years experience as an electronics engineer and field service engineer. He has a BSEE from New York Institute of Technology. He is licensed as W21LP since 1951; commercial radio telephone operator licensee, and global maritime distress and safety system maintainer licensee. He is a member of ARRL, QCWA, and TAPR.
Ridley Whittaker is a lawyer for entrepreneurs in the telecommunications area including cellular, cable, and satellite broadcasting. He visited Baikonur in May, 1994. He was the Special Counsel to RIMSAT and is now the Special Counsel to the Trustee and Bankruptcy of RIMSAT.
Mr. Willoughby has been a space physicist with more than 30 years experience from project Gemini to planetary probes. He has extensive Air Force and NASA involvment in extravehicular activities, infrared space systems, nuclear weapons effects, electronics systems, R&D planning, and solar system explorations. His NASA colleagues have nicknamed him "Asteroid Al" for his asteroidal obsessions.
Greg Zsidisin has refurbished railguns at the U.S. Army's Electromagnetic Launch Laboratory at Picatinny Arsenal, NJ; led tours of Thomas Edison's West Orange laboratory and home as a park ranger; flown model rockets with Geoff Landis before Geoff became an award-winning science fiction author; and organized pro-space rallies at the 1992 Democratic National Convention and the White House. Currently, he is president of the New York City chapter of the National Space Society, chair of ISDC'96, and produces engineering documentation for solenoid valves in his spare time. ISDC'96, coming on the 35th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's announcement of the Apollo goal before a joint session of Congress, is an occasion to reflect on the challenges the space pioneers of the 1960s overcame, and assess those that face us today in pursuing the space frontier.
