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Gurbir Singh holds a science and an arts degree. Once keen on aviation, he has a private pilots licence for UK, USA and Australia. He was one of 13,000 unsuccessful applicants responding to the 1989 advert in the UK “Astronaut wanted. No experience necessary” to become the first British...

Pete Worden, Executive Director, Breakthrough Starshot; former Director of NASA Ames Research Center

Prior to joining the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, Dr. Worden was Director of NASA’s Ames Research Center. He was research professor of astronomy at the University of...

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International Assessment and Strategy Center (IASC)International Assessment and Strategy Center (IASC)May 2004 - Present · 18 yrs 7 mosMay 2004 - Present · 18 yrs 7 mos

• Principle analyst regarding China’s military modernization and U.S. strategy in Asia...

Mr. Gardner is the Director of Engineering for Advanced Space and Program Manager for CAPSTONE.   He has been with the company for 6+ years (Also, the Program Manager of Oracle the, prior to joining Advanced Space, Mr. Gardner had experience as the Chief Engineer/Principal Mission Systems...

Author Brad Bergan is a senior writer at NFT Now and previously, a contributing editor at Futurism and senior editor at Interesting Engineering, specializing in space and tech. His words have appeared in or on VICE, Thinknum, 3:AM Magazine, The World Economic Forum, Bloomberg, Discover,  and NBC...

Sam Wilson is a policy analyst at The Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy, where he is responsible for leading work on international space; nuclear command, control, and communications; and missile issues. Prior to joining Aerospace, he served as a senior analyst in the...

John E. Brandenburg is a theoretical plasma physicist who was born in Rochester Minnesota, and grew up in Medford Oregon. He obtained his BA in Physics, with a Mathematics minor, from Southern Oregon University in 1975 and obtained his MS in 1977 and PhD in Plasma Physics both from University of...

Keith Henson, BSEE UofAZ 1969 was one of the L5 Society founders (1975).  He has worked on power satellites off and on for 40 years, intensively since he retired.  He has written widely on space engineering topics, such as space farms, vapor phase fabrication, large scale radiator designs, power...

Anatoly Zak – writer and illustrator specialized in the history of space exploration. Native of Russia, he attended School of Journalism at Moscow State University. Upon moving to the United States, he earned journalism degree from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications....

Robert Zimmerman is an award-winning science journalist and historian who has written six books and hundreds of articles on science, engineering, and the history of space exploration and technology. He also reports on space, science, and culture at his website, Behind the Black (...

Andrew Chanin is the Co-Founder and CEO of ProcureAM, an exchange-traded product issuer that launched the world’s first pure-play space ETF – The Procure Space ETF (UFO). UFO tracks the S-Network Space Index...

Following an early 2022 US tour as keyboardist for Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains, JASON ACHILLES divides his time as an internationally touring multi-instrumentalist, music producer, orchestral composer, and “side gig” as an aerospace entrepreneur.

In 2017 Jason...

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