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Welcome toElizabeth City State University

and North Carolina’s first

NewSpace Commerce Forum

Bill Greuling

Vice PresidentNorth Carolina Aerospace Alliance400 West Main StreetSouth Bank Building,3rd FloorDurham, NC 27701 919-686-3823greulingb@ncmbc.us

The NASA Space Grant College and Fellowship Program promotes higher education and workforce development opportunities for the nation’s next generation of aerospace professionals. The Nebraska Space Grant is crossing state lines to develop an emerging partnership with the Aviation Science department and the new Space Science program at Elizabeth City State University. Students in this program are poised at the forefront of the NewSpace initiative in North Carolina. With your participation in this endeavor, this symposium will be a successful first step to new areas of economic development and job prosperity for the citizens of North Carolina. Best wishes for a productive symposium, Michaela Lucas NASA Nebraska Space Grant Consortium

Welcome to North Carolina’s Northeast, the land where aviation was born. On behalf of North Carolina’s Northeast Commission, and our 16-member counties, we are pleased you chose to join us today as we work to build the future of the aerospace industry in the region. Our overall goal is to expand the capacity for new jobs and investment and to diver-sify the economy. The growth in the aerospace industry can bring jobs to Northeastern North Carolina, and it allows us to build on our existing assets at ECSU, the USCG, College of the Albemarle, regional airports, and our existing aerospace businesses. We look forward to a productive and educational forum as we build our region for the future.

Vann RogersonPresidentCEO North Carolina’s Northeast Commission

Welcome!

Welcome to Elizabeth City State University. For over 118 years, this University has been the source of and the foundation for outstand-ing achievements. Elizabeth City State University has evolved from a teachers college into a constitu-ent institution of the University of North Carolina system offering 37 baccalaureate degrees and four master’s degrees. We are known for our outstanding signature programs - pharmacy and aviation. We are proud to be a partner in hosting this Forum on NewSpace Commerce as it fits perfectly with our mission to be a catalyst for economic develop-ment in Northeastern North Carolina, especially in the aerospace arena. We believe that the Forum will open new avenues for our graduates and identify many opportunities to grow and expand aerospace businesses here in the Northeast. Thank you for being a part of this exciting endeavor and enjoy your visit to our campus.

Willie J. Gilchrist, Ed.D.ChancellorElizabeth City State University

On behalf of Elizabeth City State University and the Aviation Science Program, I, too, have the honor of welcoming you to Elizabeth City State University and the Newspace Commerce Forum in the beautiful and historical city of Elizabeth City. I hope you enjoy your visit with us as we begin an earnest effort to grow space commerce in North Carolina.

At this moment throughout the State of North Carolina, we see a growing interest in aviation and aerospace interests. Established aviation and aerospace companies have continued their work here, new aviation and aerospace companies have moved here, and people, like you, have given thought to the notion that there is much more to be done in the areas of aviation and aerospace in North Carolina.

And, why should that not be the case? After all, it was a scant, thirty-five miles from Elizabeth City that the Wright Brothers completed their feat of controlled flight of a heavier-than-air machine. This accomplishment has changed the lives of every person on the planet in ways that we cannot begin to quantify. It all began right here in North Carolina.

By this Newspace Commerce Forum, we expect to take another defining step for North Carolina. As the world gives more and more attention to the prospects and benefits of newspace commerce, we, too, want to be involved for the benefit of citizens and enterprises in our great state. I look forward to working with each of you as we bring our minds together to explore and to build the state’s entry into Newspace Commerce. Again, welcome to the Newspace Commerce Forum.

J. Anthony Sharp, Ph.D.Director of Aviation ScienceElizabeth City State University

On behalf of the North Carolina Aerospace Alliance and the North Carolina Military Business Center, I want to thank you for attending the first “NewSpace Commercial Opportunities” Forum to be held in the state of North Carolina. As a baseline for this Forum we have two goals. First we want to paint a picture for those in attendance of: “What does this NewSpace commercial market look like?” “What is it today?” and “Where is it headed in the future?” Secondly, we want to ask ourselves, what is North Carolina’s role in this new space industry? At the end of the day, I want everyone who attends to leave Elizabeth City with a clearer understanding of what constitutes the NewSpace industry, what eco-nomic opportunities lie there, and what role North Carolina might have in engaging in this industry. I would like to leave the Forum with a list of actionable items that we might take to help assist North Carolina involve itself in this new space world. The future lies not only ahead of us, but above us as well. I look forward to seeing everyone in Elizabeth City!

Bill Greuling Vice President,North Carolina Aerospace Alliance

ElectriCities is proud to support the NewSpace Commerce Forum and all efforts to encourage economic growth in the aerospace sector.

Purpose: Educate state and local government, business, and academic leaders about the economic development potential for North Carolina of the NewSpace industry Develop a “next-steps” strategy for the development of an indigenous NewSpace industry that is integrated with the state’s existing aviation- and aerospace-related industry clusters

8:30-9:00 Registration and coffee

9:00-9:20 Opening remarks Chancellor Willie Gilchrist, Elizabeth City State University Dr. J. Anthony Sharp, Director of Aviation Science, Elizabeth City State University Bill Greuling, NC Military Business Center/NC Aerospace Alliance

9:20-10:40 Introduction to the NewSpace industry and its relevance to aviation/aerospace and NC Northeast and statewide economic development Jeff Krukin, NewSpace Business Development Q & A

10:40-11:00 The Aviation Science Program at Elizabeth City State University: The Only One of Its Kind Dr. J. Anthony Sharp, Director of Aviation Science, ECSU Q & A

11:00-11:20 Break

11:20-1:00 NewSpace and North Carolina Government keynote speakers: Dale Carroll: Deputy Secretary, NC Department of Commerce Jeff Greason: President, XCOR Aerospace Richard Walls: Director of Aviation, NC Department of Transportation Bob Richards: CEO, Odyssey Moon and co-Founder, International Space University

1:00-2:00 Lunch (no presentations)

2:00-3:30 “NewSpace in North Carolina” panel (moderator: Jeff Krukin) Raymond Jones, CEO, VX Aerospace; Chairman, NC Aerospace Alliance (Topic: NC business perspective) Charles Miller, Senior Advisor for Commercial Space, NASA Innovative Partnerships Program Office (Topic: NASA and NewSpace) Randy Maday, Spaceport Licensing and Safety Lead, FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation (Topic: commercial spaceport application process) Michael Beavin, Senior Program Analyst, US Department of Commerce (Topic: role of Office of Space Commercialization) Lt. Col. Paul Damphousse, USMC (Topic: military & NewSpace industry)

3:30-4:30 Open floor discussion of next steps Moderator: Bill Greuling, NC Military Business Center/NC Aerospace Alliance

4:30-5:00 Closing remarks Dr. J. Anthony Sharp, Director of Aviation Science, Elizabeth City State University Bill Greuling, NC Military Business Center/NC Aerospace Alliance

Agenda November 12, 2009

Dale CarrollDeputy Commerce SecretaryNorth Carolina Department of Commerce

When Dale Carroll was appointed by Gov. Bev Perdue as the deputy secretary of the N.C. Department of Commerce in January 2009, he brought three decades of business management and executive leadership to the position.

Prior to joining Commerce, Carroll served for 12 years as the chief executive officer of AdvantageWest, an economic development partnership that serves 23 counties in the western part of the state. Before that, he worked for 18 years with Carolina Power & Light (now Progress Energy) in roles that ranged from energy services engineer to manager of economic development.

During his tenure at AdvantageWest, Carroll’s board and staff were recognized for excellence by the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers, Southeast Tourism Society, Entrepreneur Magazine and Southern Economic Development Council.

He is a past president of the N.C. Economic Developers Association and has served on the state’s Economic Development Board and the N.C. Biotechnology Center’s Advisory Committee for Biotechnology in Western North Carolina.

Carroll received a Bachelor of Science degree from N.C. State University and a Master’s degree in management and human relations from Webster University in St. Louis.

Biographies of Speakers and Panelists

Paul E. DamphousseLieutenant ColonelUnited States Marine Corp

Lieutenant Colonel Paul E. Damphousse currently serves as the Space Fellow for Senator Bill Nelson of Florida. In this capacity he is responsible for advising the Senator on all civil, commercial, and national security space matters. He is detailed to Sen. Nelson’s office from the National Security Space Office (NSSO) where he served as the Chief of Advanced Concepts.

Prior to his joining the NSSO LtCol Damphousse was assigned to Marine Aircraft Group-16 and deployed to Iraq from Aug 2004 to Mar 2005, and again from Feb 2006 to Feb 2007. During his latest deployment, as the Operations Officer for the largest aircraft group in the Marine Corps, he was responsible for the daily planning and execution of combat operations for all Marine aircraft in Iraq. He is a CH-53E helicopter pilot with over 2300 flight hours, several hundred of which are in combat.

Lieutenant Colonel Damphousse holds a Masters degree in Astronautical Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School and is a Marine Corps Space Operations Officer. His previous space experience includes an assignment within the Operations Directorate of US Space Command in Colorado Springs where he served as Space Control and Special Technical Operations action officer conducting planning for Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.

LtCol Damphousse was the NSSO’s lead for Space-Based Solar Power and for the Marine Corps’ Small Unit Space Transport and Insertion (SUSTAIN) concept. He also led the effort to leverage and catalyze commercial and government space access capabilities for the National Security Space community.

Michael BeavinSenior Program AnalystOffice of Space CommercializationUS Department of Commerce

Michael Beavin joined the Office of Space Commercialization at NOAA in May 2006 as a Senior Program Analyst. Mike came to the Office of Space Commercialization from the Satellite Industry Association (SIA) where he was the Director of Government Affairs and focused on the association’s legislative and policy issues within Congress and the Administration. Before working at SIA, Mike worked for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) where he was the Director of Government Relations and Public Policy.

Mike also served on the majority staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics. In this position he was responsible for overseeing the committee’s authorization of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration fiscal year budget and the FAA Research, Engineering, and Development budget.

Jeff GreasonPresidentXCOR Aerospace

Jeff Greason has 17 years experience managing innovative technical project teams at XCOR Aerospace, Rotary Rocket and Intel Corporation. As president and a co-founder of XCOR, he leads the engineering team that has developed ten different long-life, highly-reusable liquid-fueled rocket engines, a low-cost liquid propellant piston pump, and two manned reusable rocket aircraft – the EZ-Rocket and a prototype for a private customer. As part of his duties at XCOR, Mr. Greason has had the final go/no-go decision responsibility on hundreds of rocket engine test firings, more than twenty manned rocket flights, and has served as a flight test engineer aboard one of those flights.

Mr. Greason is the co-inventor of XCOR’s Nonburnite technology, which combines aerospace fabrication practices with materials common in the semiconductor industry. Mr. Greason fabricated the first exploratory materials coupons in 2002 and is still directly supervising the coupon development work taking place at XCOR. He is intimately familiar with every aspect of the materials development to date.

Greason previously hired and managed the propulsion team at Rotary Rocket, where he led technical development of the company’s rocket engines from 1997 through 1999. Prior to joining Rotary Rocket, Greason developed leading-edge techniques to prepare new generations of Intel computer chip designs for mass production, dramatically shortening the time from architecture to customer-ready product. Intel management presented Greason with a coveted Intel Achievement Award for his work on BiCMOS technology, which later became the basis for the Pentium processor.

Greason, a recognized expert in FAA/AST reusable launch vehicle (RLV) regulations, led XCOR Aerospace’s licensing efforts until they were completed in early 2003, and remains deeply involved. In July 2003, he testified before the joint House/Senate subcommittee hearings on “Commercial Human Spaceflight.” Greason has maintained a close working relationship with AST since the 1998 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on RLV licensing. He has been a member of the COMSTAC RLV working group since 2000 and now serves on the full COMSTAC. He is a co-founder and vice-chairman of the Personal Spaceflight Federation, a trade association for innovative launch companies.

Greason was cited by Time magazine in 2001 as one of the “Inventors of the Year” for his team’s work on the EZ-Rocket. He holds 18 U.S. patents. He graduated with honors from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

Dr. Willie GilchrestChancellorElizabeth City State University

Dr. Willie J. Gilchrist became the ninth chief executive officer of Elizabeth City State University having been appointed chancellor as of March 15, 2007. Prior to this appointment, he served as interim chancellor of ECSU from September 1, 2006. With an extensive background as an educator and administrator for over 30 years, he last served as superintendent of Halifax County Schools (NC) since 1994.

Chancellor Gilchrist holds an undergraduate degree in health and physical education from ECSU (1973), a master’s degree in administration from Brockport State University in New York (1975), and a doctorate of education in administration from Nova Southeastern University in Florida (1998). He has also completed additional graduate work at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

After graduating from ECSU, Dr. Gilchrist spent four years as a teacher and counselor in the Rochester, NY, public schools before returning to northeastern North Carolina. He began his administrative career as an assistant principal at Eastside School in Jackson in 1977 and was soon promoted to assistant principal of Gumberry High School. He was named principal of Gumberry High in 1979, and after three years in the post, he was named principal of Northampton County High School-West in Gaston. After 11 years in that post, he was recruited to serve as associate superintendent of schools for Northampton County. Less than a year later, in May 1994, he was named superintendent of Halifax County Schools, overseeing a rural district serving nearly 5,500 children.

In 2001, Dr. Gilchrist was elected by the NC Senate to the UNC Board of Governors, the policy-making body for the 16-campus University of North Carolina. He began his second four-year term in 2005 and resigned from this Board to accept the appointment at ECSU. During his years as a Board of Governor member, Dr. Gilchrist chaired the Board’s Committee on Educational Planning, Policies, and Programs; the Task Force on Teacher Supply and Demand; and the Gardner Award Committee. In addition, he served on the Committee on University Governance, the Committee on the Future of Information Technology, and several other ad hoc committees.

In addition to his work on the Board of Governors, Dr. Gilchrist has served on the Governor’s More at Four Committee, the Governor’s Education First Task Force, the Halifax County Airport Authority, the Halifax-Warren Smart Start Board of Directors, and the boards of the Roanoke Valley Chamber of Commerce, the Halifax Development Commission, and the BMB Shelter Home.

Active in professional and civic organizations, Gilchrist has received numerous awards and other recognitions for his contributions to education and service to children. A 1994 recipient of ECSU’s Outstanding Alumni Award, he has also been named Middle-Level Superintendent of the Year by the NC Middle School Association (2003), Halifax County Schools Administrator of the Year (1999), Region 3 Superintendent of the Year by the NC High School Administrators Association (1998), and Principal of the Year for Northampton County Public Schools (1986, 1992-93).

Dr. Gilchrist and his wife, Jacqueline, have three adult children, all of whom are ECSU graduates.

Raymond C. JonesChief Executive OfficerVX Aerospace

Mr. Jones has over twenty-five years of leadership and management experience in a wide range of industries. He is an experienced entrepreneur, aerospace engineer, lawyer and corporate financial specialist. He had both fixed-wing and helicopter flying experience in the U.S. Navy. Mr. Jones earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy, With Merit, and a J.D. from George Mason Law School, With Distinction.

Mr. Jones is a successful entrepreneur, drawing on his varied experiences in engineering, law and finance, to take two separate technology companies (X-Dynamics and vFirm Systems, Inc) from the start-up phase to successful acquisitions.

Through X-Dynamics, he developed and refined a proprietary “X-Scatter” valuation model for technology, intellectual property, market and commercialization assessments. The model was used to efficiently source, negotiate and close technology transfer deals in the areas of electrical conductors, semiconductor manufacturing and medical software.

Prior to X-Dynamics, Mr. Jones launched vFirm Systems, Inc., a web-based communications network company, and performed a myriad of tasks to ensure the success of the firm. He designed the technical interface, raised venture capital, secured the initial client base and strategic partners, and negotiated the marketing deals. vFirm Systems was sold to ASP-One, Inc. in 2003. Mr. Jones and vFirm Systems were chronicled in Entrepreneur Magazine (February 2001) and Fortune Small Business (May 2001).

Prior to starting vFirm Systems, Mr. Jones founded a thriving intellectual property law firm. The firm was ranked in the Top 50 Patent Firms as complied by Intellectual Property Today magazine, and serviced Fortune 500 and large international clients, including GE, Sun Microsystems, and Samsung Electronics. Mr. Jones specialized in evaluating and valuing technology and technology companies, and used this knowledge to help companies with early stage financial issues, including cash-flow conservation and optimization.

Mr. Jones was also an Aerospace Engineer for M&T Co., a defense-contracting firm supporting NAVAIR, NAWCAD Lakehurst NJ, and NADEP Jacksonville, FL, in the areas of aircraft structures and avionics test equipment.

Bill GreulingBusiness Development ManagerNorth Carolina Military Business CenterVice PresidentNorth Carolina Aerospace Alliance

Mr. Bill Greuling, is currently the Operations Manager for the North Carolina Military Business Center (NCMBC). Bill is responsible for managing the day to day activities of the NCMBC Business Development Team which is composed of 12 Business Development Specialists that are stationed throughout North Carolina and are charged to monitor all current Federal & DOD procurement activities going on within the state. He also currently serves as the Vice President of the North Carolina Aerospace Alliance, and also serves as the Acting State Coordinator for the alliance. Bill is a native of Durham, NC. He attended undergraduate school at Duke University and Saint Andrews Presbyterian College, and attended graduate school at the Florida Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the Military Business Center, Bill has served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal and Gabon, Africa and as an Army officer with the US Army Corps of Engineers. He has been a small business owner, and came to the MBC from the aerospace industry where he served as both corporate contract manger and program manager for a number of space and aircraft programs for TECSTAR Electro-Systems Division in Durham, NC and New Phoenix Aerospace in Morrisville, NC. Bill is married and has three children and two step sons. He now lives in Durham, NC, with his wife Rebecca, who is the Charge Nurse with the Neurology Department at Duke University Medical Center.

Jeff KrukinNewSpace Business Development ConsultantChief Operating OfficerSyntiant, Inc.

Jeff Krukin’s space career began with boyhood evenings in the back yard gazing at the Moon, which led to a graduate internship at NASA Headquarters. His career has included IBM Systems Engineer, Chairman of ProSpace, grant-funded economic development work, Executive Director of the Space Frontier Foundation, and most recently a NewSpace Business Development practice.

Jeff combined his passions for technology and space as an IBM Systems Engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. During a 25-year Information Technology career that also included Attachmate Corp. and independent consulting, he specialized in strategic business and technology planning and implementation, along with technical sales, marketing, and communication. Jeff left the IT field in 2004 to focus exclusively on his space career.

From January 2005 through December 2007, Jeff was Executive Director of the Space Frontier Foundation, the most prominent commercial space (NewSpace) advocacy organization. Overlapping this period, beginning in 2004 and continuing today, he has engaged in various space consulting projects. The largest of these was the North Carolina Aerospace Economy Project that he initiated in 2004, and he was awarded two grants to educate political, business, and economic development leaders about the emerging NewSpace industry and its potential contributions to the state’s economic development. He was the lead author of The Aero/Space Economy in North Carolina: A Preliminary Assessment of Current Performance and Future Prospects, and a key contributor to North Carolina’s Strategic Plan for Workforce Development in the Aviation and Aerospace Industries.Jeff is a frequent conference speaker across the United States and Europe, and in Canada, Australia, Singapore, and Hong Kong. He has been interviewed for newspapers, magazines, radio, and television from Los Angeles to West Palm Beach, as well as in Europe and Asia.

He is also a writer, and his first space article was published in 1981. His articles and Op-Ed’s have appeared on numerous websites and in publications such as Space News, the Houston Chronicle, The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), Ad Astra, the Houston Business Journal, and the Journal for Space Development. His first book essays were published in Spring 2005 in “Tackling Tomorrow Today: Moving Along, Far Ahead,” part of a book series written for high school students.

Jeff is an award-winning leader, having received the ProSpace Activist of the Year award in 1998, Attachmate Corp. North America Systems Engineer of the Year award in 1999, and numerous other commendations. NASA and the US Dept. of Commerce’s Office of Space Commercialization have requested his participation in their strategic planning efforts.

He is the creator of The Human-Space Connection® concept, serves on the Steering Committee of the International Association of Space Entrepreneurs and Leadership Team of the Overview Institute, and launched (pun intended) his NewSpace Business Development practice in January 2008. In May 2009 he became Chief Operating Officer of Syntiant, Inc., a startup venture currently seeking funding.

His belief in the importance of space for global peace and prosperity is the foundation of his work. With his diverse experience and Master’s Degree in Studies of the Future, Jeff brings a unique and insightful perspective on human activity in space and what it means for humanity.

His website is www.jeffkrukin.com.

Randy MadaySpaceport Licensing and Safety LeadOffice of Commercial Space TransportationFederal Aviation Administration

Randy Maday has worked in the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) Office of Commercial Space Transportation since 1996. His primary responsibility has been to serve as the lead for commercial launch site operator licensing. In that capacity, he has led the evaluation of license applications for numerous launch site operators and inspections of site operations after licenses were issued. For 13 years prior to joining the FAA, he was a system safety engineer, providing support to the Safety and Mission Assurance offices at the Goddard Space Flight Center and NASA Headquarters. As a Senior Engineer supporting the Payloads, ELVs and Advanced Technology Division at NASA Headquarters, his primary responsibility was to establish and implement top-level safety, reliability, and quality assurance requirements for a diverse range of NASA payloads and support activities.

Charles MillerSenior Advisor for Commercial SpaceInnovative Partnerships Program OfficeNational Aeronautics and Space Administration

Mr. Miller is Senior Advisor for Commercial Space in the Innovative Partnerships Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC where he advises senior NASA leaders on commercial space options and strategies. He also serves as the program executive for NASA’s Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research program, the Commercial RLV Technology Roadmap study, and the Entrepreneurial Access to Space Partnerships activity. Mr. Miller is the co-founder and former President and CEO of Constellation Services International, Inc., which was a leading entrepreneurial space services company focused on commercial opportunities in Earth orbit. At CSI, Miller raised over $2 million in private capital, and built and led a team that successfully completed 4 NASA contracts related to commercial ISS cargo services. Miller also has served as a consultant to the U.S. Air Force, DARPA and many commercial firms in the area of commercial space and reusable space access.

Prior to NASA and CSI, Mr. Miller was the founding Chairman and President of ProSpace where he served from 1996 to 1999. Under Mr. Miller’s leadership, ProSpace was instrumental in the passage of space-related legislative initiatives, including the Commercial Space Act of 1998, funding for NASA’s X-33, Future-X and Space Solar Power programs, and the U.S. Air Force’s RLV Technology Development program. Miller has received several awards for his work in the aerospace field, including the “Vision in Action” award from the Space Frontier Foundation, the “Space Pioneer” award from the National Space Society, and the “Exceptional Leadership” award from the California Space Development Council. Mr. Miller studied engineering at the California Institute of Technology and has a BS in Business Administration (Finance) from the California State University of Chico.

Dr. Robert (Bob) RichardsFounder and Chief Executive OfficerOdyssey MoonCo-Founder, International Space UniversityCo-Founder, Students for the Exploration and Development of Space

Dr. Robert (Bob) Richards is the Founder and CEO of Odyssey Moon Limited, a commercial lunar enterprise based in the Isle of Man and the first official registrant in the $30M Google Lunar X PRIZE competition. He is also the Director of Space Technology at Optech Incorporated of Canada, where he presided over the first commercial lidar scanner flown in space as well as the meteorological lidar flown to Mars aboard the NASA Phoenix Lander.

Bob studied aerospace and industrial engineering at Ryerson University; physics and astronomy at the University of Toronto; and space science at Cornell University where he became special assistant to Carl Sagan. In 1987 Bob founded the International Space University (ISU) with Peter Diamandis and Todd Hawley, where he served as the university’s first Associate Administrator for Strategic Planning and chaired the board’s administrative and strategic planning committees during ISU’s first phase of development. Today ISU is a well established global institution operating out of its Central Campus in Strasbourg, France, which Bob continues to oversee as a member of the ISU Board of Trustees. In 2008 Bob joined forces with Diamandis and other leading thinkers in the founding of the Singularity University (SU), an institution based at the NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley dedicated to preparing humanity for accelerating technological change.

Bob first joined forces with Diamandis and Hawley in the creation of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS), which continues today as the largest student run space organization in the world, and the Space Generation Foundation, whose youth outreach programs today include Yuri’s Night and the Space Generation Congress, with UN Observer Status and space policy activities through its sister organization, the Space Generation Advisory Council.

Bob is a strong advocate of the NewSpace movement and has been a catalyst for a number of astropreneurial ventures throughout his career. He serves on the boards of numerous international space organizations and in 2005 was elected Vice President of the International Lunar Exploration Working Group (ILEWG) as well as a Member of the International Institute of Space Law of the International Astronautical Federation.

Bob is the recipient of a number of international space awards, including the K.E. Tsiolkovski Medal (Russia, 1995), the Space Frontier “Vision to Reality” Award (USA , 1994), the Arthur C. Clarke Commendation (Sri Lanka, 1990) and Aviation & Space Technology Laurel (USA, 1988). He is a contributing author of “Blueprint for Space”, published by the Smithsonian Institution (1992), and “Return to the Moon”, published by Apogee Books (2005).

In 2005 Bob received a Doctorate of Space Achievement (honoris causa) from the International Space University for “distinguished accomplishments in support of humanity’s exploration and use of space.”

Dr. J. Anthony SharpDirector of Aviation ScienceElizabeth City State University

Dr. J. Anthony Sharp was born and raised in Norfolk, Virginia. He has always had a special interest in aviation. After high school graduation, he entered the U.S. Air Force where he served as an aircraft mechanic and was able to learn about aviation. Also, he was involved with various aspects of military flying as a flight crew member. During his four years in the military, Dr. Sharp served one year in Vietnam and was awarded the U.S. Armed Forces Air Medal for meritorious flight duty.

Dr. Sharp began Norfolk State University following his military service. After two years, he transferred to Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, and graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 1971. He then enrolled at New York University and graduated with a Masters of Arts degree in Political Science in 1972. He attended the University of Miami, School of Education, where he graduated with a Ph.D. degree in Higher Education Administration in July, 1994.

Since 1972, Dr. Sharp has been employed at some of the nation’s finest higher education institutions, including Jersey City State University in New Jersey, Union College in Schenectady, New York, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona, Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, Pima Community College in Tucson, and Ohio University in Athens. Also, he served as the chairperson for the Division of Aviation and Computer Science at Florida Memorial University in Miami. Currently, he is the director of the Aviation Science Program at Elizabeth City State University, and is working earnestly to expand aviation education in North Carolina. Dr. Sharp taught the first aviation course in the newly established aviation program at Elizabeth City State University, and he established the flight programs at both Hampton University and Florida Memorial University. Employment outside of higher education includes his work as a professional pilot and consultant, and his work in television production.

Dr. Sharp is an Airline Transport Pilot, a Certified Flight Instructor for airplanes, instruments, and multi-engine aircraft, and a Certified Ground Instructor for advanced and instrument pilot instruction. Much of his work has been in aviation education and much of that has been concerned with promoting aviation, especially among young and minority people. Dr. Sharp has memberships in several national aviation organizations. He served as the President of the National Association of Minorities in Aviation, an organization whose purpose was to promote aviation among minority people. Currently, he serves as the Secretary for the University Aviation Association, the voice of collegiate aviation education. Additionally, Dr. Sharp is an aviation consultant who specializes in the areas of aviation education and business aviation consulting.

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