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Roundtable 1 Speaker Biographies
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Hugh Arif is a Space Initiatives Manager for Cisco Systems, Global Defense, Space and Security Group and has 20 years of experience in the civilian and commercial space industry.
He has worked progressively as an aerospace engineer, Project Manager and then Branch Chief at NASA GRC in design and analysis of spacecraft systems, shuttle payloads and space station. Hugh then worked at NASA GSFC in the Flight Projects Directorate, and served as the Test Director for the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) spacecraft.
Prior to joining Cisco, Hugh was a Program Manager with Rockwell for ground systems automation of the US National Missile Defense program and has global program management experience with Exxon and Fluor Corporations.
He has published 19 technical papers in space research and technology-related journals and has a MSME from SUNY at Buffalo, a BSME from the University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan and is a 1992 attendee of the International Space University.
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Ken Davidian is currently working for Centennial Challenges at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Modeled on past and ongoing prize competitions, Centennial Challenges was established to conduct prize competitions in support of the Vision for Space Exploration and ongoing NASA programs.
Prior to his current position, Mr. Davidian served as Director of Operations for the X PRIZE Foundation. Responsibilities in this position included managing the registration process, team information and relations, and many aspects of flight attempt validation, judging, and event coordination.
In addition to his prize-related work experience, Mr. Davidian has worked for Paragon Space Development Corp. as Program Manager and as Director of Operations consulting to CargoLifter Development, GmbH. Finally, Mr. Davidian spent the first 18 years of his career working for NASA Glenn Research Center in the area of analytical and experimental research on the performance of liquid rocket engines. For a threeyear period, NASA Glenn seconded Mr. Davidian to work for the International Space University to serve as Assistant Director of Operations for the 1997-1999 Summer Session Programs.
Mr. Davidian is an alumnus of the International Space University, earned a B.S. degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the Ohio State University and a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering (Fluid and Thermal Sciences) from Case Western Reserve University.
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Michael B. Duke is the Director of the Institute for Space Resources (formerly Center for Commercial Applications of Combustion in Space) at the Colorado School of Mines. Before coming to CSM he served in several positions at the NASA Johnson Space Center, including as Lunar Sample Curator and as Chief of the Solar System Exploration Division, and spent five years at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. His educational background includes Bachelors, Masters and PhD degrees from Caltech in Geology and Geochemistry.
Dr. Duke has worked in lunar science since 1967, when he was named Principal Investigator in the Apollo lunar sample program, while at the U. S. Geological Survey. He continued to work in lunar science while at JSC. During the early 1980s, he and his colleagues at JSC began to develop concepts for human outposts on the Moon and for the use of lunar materials for practical purposes. Their work on lunar outposts resulted in the organization of workshops and conferences from the mid-1980s, including two Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century Conferences. That work was important in defining the content of the first Space Exploration Initiative, announced by President George Bush in 1989. Although that initiative failed, much good work was developed that is now being incorporated into the U.S. Space Vision being developed in NASA.
Dr. Duke's interest in space resource development brought him to the Colorado School of Mines, where he and colleagues have been working on aspects of extraction and utilization of lunar resources and to the economics and potential commercial development of lunar resources. Their work has contributed to a growing interest in space resource development within NASA and the inclusion of space resource development in the Space Vision.
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Paul Eckert holds the position of International & Commercial Strategist within Space Exploration Systems, NASA Systems, The Boeing Company, in Arlington, Virginia. In this role, he develops strategies to optimize international business relationships and explore new commercial opportunities. Eckert previously served as Business Development Communications Coordinator for the Space Exploration Systems office, facilitating communication and collaboration involving the office and Boeing Government Affairs, Legislative Affairs, and Communications. Earlier, after joining The Boeing Company in January 2003, Eckert held the position of Senior Strategy Analyst within the NASA Systems Strategic Planning office in Houston, Texas. There he supported Space Shuttle return to flight planning, advanced space transportation, Earth observation, space science, government relations, and customer message development.
In 2001 and 2002, Eckert served as a Technology Policy Analyst in the Office of Space Commercialization, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., helping to develop policies promoting the economic interests of the U.S. commercial space industry, both domestically and internationally. From 1999 through 2000, he was a Legislative Affairs Specialist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), with responsibility for liaison with the U.S. Congress involving space and aeronautics technology, information technology, systems engineering, and technology transfer to industry. Immediately prior to joining NASA, Eckert served as a Policy Analyst for the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), in Bethesda, Maryland, building a coalition of biomedical and physical science research societies promoting legislation to double Federal basic research funding.
In 1997 and 1998, he was science and technology advisor to U.S. Senator John Breaux of Louisiana, having been awarded a Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). From 1986 through 1997, Eckert rose to become Director of Quality Improvement in the Behavioral Services Division of Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan, where he laid the foundation for an information system integrating financial management and strategic planning.
Eckert holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in History from Harvard University, as well as a Ph.D. in Psychology from Michigan State University. Drawing on postgraduate training in organizational development, he has developed expertise in coalition building and conflict resolution. Eckert is fluent in French and has participated in international science and technology activities, including a European Union Visitors Program study tour to Brussels and Paris in 1999.
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Keith Graf is a fourth generation Texan, who follows a family tradition of active involvement in all areas of local, state, and federal government. He was raised in Fort Worth, Texas, and today, lives in Austin with his wife, Linda.
Keith has worked in politics since his graduation from TCU (Texas Christian University) in 1992. Although he started off small working on a grass-roots campaign, he has since held positions that include five years with United States Senator Phil Gramm and currently, three years with Governor Rick Perry where he serves as Director for Aerospace and Aviation within the Governor's Office of Economic Development and Tourism.
Although he is actively involved in many organizations, he is most proud to serve as a member of the Texas State Guard, where he is an Assistant Training Officer.
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David Gump is the president of Transformational Space Corporation, or t/Space. Last year t/Space won a NASA contract to design an overall lunar exploration architecture and a Crew Exploration Vehicle to carry it out.
He has led t/Space's response to NASA on developing policies that would support commercial participation in the Vision for Space Exploration, and the economic opportunities available from lunar development.
David previously was president of LunaCorp, which conducted several projects on the International Space Station sponsored by RadioShack. LunaCorp arranged the filming of the first television commercial on the International Space Station on behalf of RadioShack, showing the station's Dads getting Father's Day gifts from their daughters. He also arranged for the crew to throw the ceremonial First Pitch for the 2002 World Series, on behalf of Fox Sports and Major League Baseball. LunaCorp also set up the sponsorships that provided Lance Bass of *NSYNC with all of his initial funding for his effort to visit the space station.
As co-founder of Pasha Publications in 1978, David started several space newsletters (Space Business News, Military Space, SDI Monitor) and wrote one of the first books about entrepreneurial activities (Space Processing, Products and Profits – 1983-1990).
After selling his ownership in Pasha in 1986, he researched and wrote a massmarket book. Space Enterprise: Beyond NASA was published in 1990 by Praeger Publishers and led to op-ed pieces about space development in the Wall Street Journal.
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Steve Heard is founder and CEO of The Futures Channel, (www.thefutureschannel.com) a digital media company which produces and distributes documentary videos and other multimedia content about the scientists, engineers and visionaries who are shaping the future. Since 1999, The Futures Channel has taken students behind the scenes in fields ranging from satellites and space exploration, to oceanography and meteorology, to architecture and structural engineering.
The company is a popular content provider to the education market through the Internet, server-based networks and DVD distribution.
Heard has been producing television since 1989. His productions have won over 150 awards including three Peabody Awards, a Gold Medal from the New York Film Festival, the Gold Plaque Award from the Chicago International Film Festival and the entertainment industry's Environmental Media Award. He was executive producer/cowriter of the acclaimed PBS special, "Living & Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun."
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John Kohut is the Senior Program Manager for Integrated Space Exploration within the Raytheon Missile Systems company responsible for managing the NASA Concept Exploration and Refinement program. He has held this position since September 2004. In this role, he also develops business strategies and program execution plans for the civil and commercial application of space capabilities.
Born in Greenwich, Connecticut, Mr. Kohut joined the United States Navy in 1977 and served as an F-14 Naval Flight Officer operationally deployed on various aircraft carriers. He is a graduate of the Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN) and the United States Naval Test Pilot School. He served as an acquisition professional in a variety of fighter aircraft and weapons programs, including the F-22 and the Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) programs. His final assignment in the Navy was as program manager of the Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) program, an international cooperative development program for command and control.
Mr. Kohut has a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering (1976) from the University of Connecticut and a Masters of Science in Computer Science (1988) from the Florida Institute of Technology. He is married to the former Martha Thompson of Stamford, Connecticut and they have two children, Kristyn and John Eric.
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Roger D. Launius has been chair of the Division of Space History at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum (NASM) in Washington, D.C., since 2002. Between 1990 and 2002 he served as chief historian of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Dr. Launius was born in Galesburg, Illinois, on May 15, 1954, and grew up in Greenville, South Carolina. He graduated from Graceland College, Lamoni, Iowa, with a major in history in 1976 and received the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history in 1978 and 1982 at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, with major fields in American frontier and military history.
After completing his Ph.D., Dr. Launius became a civilian staff historian with the United States Air Force, serving in a variety of historian positions with the Air Force. Between 1987 and 1990 was Chief Historian for the Military Airlift Command, outside St. Louis, Missouri.
Dr. Launius has lectured widely on historical subjects to military, scholarly, technical, and general audiences. He has also served part?time on the faculties of several colleges and universities. He has acted as a reader for publishers, as a member of the governing councils of several historical associations, and on the editorial boards of numerous journals. He is an active member of several professional associations, among them the American Astronautical Society, where he is a fellow and member of the board. He currently serves as president of the Society for History in the Federal Government.
He has written or edited numerous books and articles. On aerospace history some of the more recent include: Space: A Journey to Our Future (Tehabi Books, 2004); Space Stations: Base Camps to the Stars (Smithsonian Books, 2003), which received the AIAA's history manuscript prize; Reconsidering a Century of Flight (University of North Carolina Press, 2003); Flight: A Celebration of 100 Years in Art and Literature (Welcome Books, 2003); To Reach the High Frontier: A History of U.S. Launch Vehicles (University Press of Kentucky, 2002); Imagining Space: Achievements, Possibilities, Projections, 1950-2050 (Chronicle Books, 2001); Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite (Harwood Academic, 2000); Innovation and the Development of Flight (Texas A&M University Press, 1999); NASA & the Exploration of Space (Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, 1998); Frontiers of Space Exploration (Greenwood Press, 1998, 2004 2nd edition); Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership (University of Illinois Press, 1997); and NASA: A History of the U.S. Civil Space Program (Krieger Publishing Co., 1994, 2001 2nd edition).
He is also involved in other historical studies. His book, Joseph Smith III: Pragmatic Prophet (University of Illinois Press, 1988), won the prestigious Evans Award for biography. He has also published Differing Visions: Dissenters in Mormon History (University of Illinois Press, 1994), Cultures in Conflict: A Documentary History of the Mormon War in Illinois (Utah State University Press, 1995), Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited: Nauvoo in Mormon History (University of Illinois Press, 1996), and several other works. Alexander William Doniphan: Portrait of a Missouri Moderate (University of Missouri Press, 1997), discusses the role of the vital center in American politics during the Mexican-American War and sectional conflict. More recently he has been studying the relationship of baseball to American culture and has published Seasons in the Sun: The Story of Big League Baseball in Missouri (University of Missouri Press, 2002).
He is frequently consulted by the electronic and print media for his views on space issues. His research interests encompass all areas of U.S. and space history and policy history, especially cultural aspects of the subject and the role of executive decision-makers and their efforts to define space exploration.
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Roger Lenard is a retired Air Force officer who holds a Bachelor of Science in physics and a Master of Science in chemical physics. Roger has 2000 hours of single seat fighter time in the Air Force. During his flying career he was a squadron test pilot and an air combat tactics instructor pilot. Roger spent several years in the space object tracking and identification program where he developed the first automatic pattern recognition programs for the Air Force.
Roger was selected as part of President Reagan's Defense Technology Study Team where he designed the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization's Kinetic Energy Weapons Master Plan. Roger was transferred to the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization where he was in charge of lightweight interceptors, hypervelocity weapons and was the program manager for the Timberwind program, a project to develop a nuclear thermal rocket stage. Roger managed programs of $100M/year in high technology research and development. Roger has served on four Defense Science Boards on subjects from advanced launch systems to space based radars. One of the products of his programs was the lightweight interceptor package for what is now the Navy Upper Tier defense system.
In 1991 Roger was selected to be part of President Bush's Space Exploration Initiative, working for General Thomas Stafford. He was the Mars exploration team co-lead with Mr. Douglas Cook of NASA Johnson Space Center. In 1993 Roger retired from the Air Force and began working for Sandia National Laboratories. In 2000 Roger became a part-time Sandian and began to consult for the Air Force and NASA on the X-37 and hydrogen peroxide fueled upper stage.
He is a part-time Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in the advanced reactor technology department. He is a consultant to Raytheon Missile Systems on the NASA Concept Evaluation and Refinement effort and provides technical and programmatic advice to Marshall Space Flight Center on the surface nuclear power and nuclear thermal propulsion programs. Roger worked extensively on the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter program for the Northrop Grumman team, who won the JIMO contract.
Roger has authored numerous papers and holds several patents and has many documented technical advances to his credit.
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Since 1980, Rex Ridenoure has been a champion of and active participant in the emerging market sector of private and commercial space missions to the Moon and beyond. For the first 20 years of his career while working at Hughes, Lockheed and JPL, Rex made significant technical contributions to more than a dozen pioneering space projects and studies such as Viking (Mars), Shuttle-launched communications satellites, the Hubble Space Telescope, Voyager 2 (Neptune), Lunar Observer, SURFSat and Deep Space 1.
In the late 1990s he successfully transitioned into the entrepreneurial space arena. He was co-recipient with three other engineers of a 1999 Laurel Award (the aerospace "Oscar") for playing a key role in the 1998 salvage of the stranded HGS-1 comsat, using a novel orbit method that made HGS-1 the first commercial spacecraft to reach the Moon's distance. From 1998-2000 Rex was Chief Mission Architect at SpaceDev, one of the first commercial space-exploration and development companies. During 2000-2001 he was Chief Mission Architect and VP for Commercial Payloads at BlastOff! Corporation, which made the most progress to date toward sending the first commercial spacecraft to the surface of the Moon.
Since co-founding Ecliptic in 2001, he has directed strategic planning and partnering, business development, marketing and sales. Ecliptic's popular RocketCam™ product family is the world's leading brand of onboard video systems for use with rockets and spacecraft. Ecliptic was a team member on the pioneering SpaceShipOne effort and will support future 'space-tourist' missions offered by the path-finding commercial space company Space Adventures.
Rex earned his M.S. in Aeronautics from Caltech in 1979, sponsored on a Hughes Aircraft Company Fellowship. He got his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering (Cum Laude) from Iowa State University (Ames) in 1978, where he was also an accomplished NCAA gymnast.
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Franklin Schowengerdt is currently the director of the innovative partnerships program office at NASA headquarters. In that position he is responsible for developing partnerships between researchers in the industrial, academic and governmental sectors for the purpose of advancing the space exploration vision and creating terrestrial benefits. Prior to that he was director of the space product development division at NASA headquarters. His previous experience includes 34 years in academia, having held positions as visiting assistant professor at the University of Nebraska and positions in all professorial ranks at the Colorado School of Mines. He was head of the physics department there for 13 years and vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty for 6 years. He founded the Center for Commercial Applications of Combustion in Space, a NASA Research Partnership Center, which he directed for 7 years. He was instrumental in establishing the Colorado Advanced Technology Institute and was founder and first chairman of the board of the Colorado Advanced Materials Institute. He was a distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. His professional interests include atomic and nuclear physics, atomic collisions, surface and interface physics, particulate physics and control, materials processing, microgravity experimentation, combustion phenomena and the commercialization of space. His most recent interests lie in helping to make the national vision for space exploration more affordable through partnerships and more sustainable by improving the lives of people here on Earth.
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On a loaned assignment to NASA from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Robert (Bob) Wegeng serves as the director of the Technology Maturation Program (TMP), part of Exploration Systems Research & Technology. Bob also directs two of TMP's five program elements: 1) Advanced Space Platforms & Systems and 2) Lunar & Planetary Surface Operations.
Prior to joining NASA, Bob was an inventor and project/program manager for a number of technology development activities at PNNL, in Richland, Washington. Bob is one of the original developers of microchannel process technology, a unique class of technologies that provides process intensification for various energy conversion and chemical process unit operations. He holds 16 patents, with several others pending, and has received two R&D 100 Awards.
Bob's earlier experiences include work in the electricity power generation and nuclear power industries. He holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering and a M.S. degree in Space Studies.
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Wayne White is an attorney in private practice in Boulder, Colorado. He is also General Counsel for the 4Frontiers Corporation. Mr. White received his law degree from UC Davis.
He previously served as Associate Director of the National Remote Sensing and Space Law Center at the University of Mississippi. He has also worked as a member of the General Counsel's Office of the University of California and was a real estate attorney for Winchell's Donut Houses Operating Company.
He is a member and former Director of the National Space Society and is a member of the International Institute of Space Law, the International Law Association, the Space Studies Institute, and the Space Frontier Foundation.
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