Awards & Recognition
★Two Inventor Awards from Martin Marietta for nuclear rocket engine design
★Fellow at the Center for Security Policy
★Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy
★Contributing Editor at The New Atlantis
★Former Chairman of the National Space Society
Notable Facts
→Founder and President of the Mars Society (1998), world's largest Mars advocacy organization
→President of Pioneer Astronautics aerospace R&D company
→Co-inventor of Mars Direct mission architecture adopted by NASA
→Author of multiple bestselling books including 'The Case for Mars' (100,000+ copies sold)
→Over 200 published technical and non-technical papers
→Nine U.S. patents granted or pending
→Former senior engineer at Lockheed Martin/Martin Marietta
→Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering, M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from University of Washington
→Age 72 (born April 9, 1952), celebrated 70th birthday in 2022