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A distinguished panel of advisors offers extensive scientific, engineering, and operational expertise.
Buzz Aldrin, Ph.D.
On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong landed their Lunar Module on the moon's Sea of Tranquility and became the first two humans to walk on the moon. This unprecedented heroic endeavor was witnessed by the largest worldwide television audience in history. He was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor amongst over 50 other distinguished awards and medals from the United States and numerous other countries. Since retiring from NASA, the Air Force, and his position as Commander of the Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, Dr. Aldrin has remained at the forefront of efforts to ensure a continued leading role for America in manned space exploration. To advance his lifelong commitment to venturing outward in space, he founded his rocket design company, Starcraft Boosters, Inc., and the ShareSpace Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to opening the doors to space tourism for all people. Buzz and his wife, Lois, live in Los Angeles. Visit his website.
Ray Bucklin, Ph.D.
Dr. Bucklin is a professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the University of Florida with both a PhD and PE. He is an advisor on agricultural concepts of Mars settlement design.
Christopher E. Carr, Sc.D.
Dr. Carr is a scientist-engineer involved in instrument development of a life-detection instrument for Mars in conjunction with planetary scientist Maria Zuber at MIT and Gary Ruvkun at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His doctorate in medical physics focused on space suit design and the bioenergetics of locomotion.
Marco Chacin – Robotic, Automation, Sensor and Control Systems
Marco is a Student Member of the IEEE (USA). He was born in Maracaibo, Venesuela. He recieved the B.S. and M.Sc degrees in Electronics Engineering and Control Engineering, with a concentration in robotics, from Dr. Rafael Belloso Chacin University. His master thesis addressed the use of DES and Subsumption Architecture for modeling robots and its application to robotic behavior. In 2001 he joined the Dr. Rafael Belloso Chacin University as Professor conducting and directing research as director of the Robotics Research Laboratory.
In 2003, he moved to Japan to pursue a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at Tohoku University under the sponsorship of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology. During this time he attended the 2005 IEEE-RAS/IFRR International School of Robotics Science, the Space Generation Congress 2005 and the International Space University (ISU) Summer Session Program (SSP06) under the sponsorship of ISU and the Japan Alumni Society for the ISU (JASI), becoming the first non-japanese person to be sponsored by the organization.
Currently hs is a member of the Rover Team at the Space Robotics Laboratory at Tohoku University responsible for Surface Mobility / Navigation Planning of JAXA's Next-Generation Rover for Future Asteroid Sample Return Mission.
Sam Dinkin, Ph.D.
Sam is an economics and business development expert currently working for Space Shot, Inc. to provide trips to space for winners of his educational game. He also designs auctions and has helped buyers and sellers conduct over $120 billion in energy and telecoms transactions. Dr. Dinkin received his doctorate in Experimental Economics from the University of Arizona studying under Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith. He is a 7th plateau IBM master inventor who received a broad patent on all externally adjustable medical implants. Dr. Dinkin has a paper forthcoming in Astropolitics on launch economics and has been published in American Economic Review and Journal of Law and Politics.
Vasek Dostal, Sc.D.
Vaclav is currently a visiting researcher at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Fluid Dynamics and Power Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Czech Tehcnical University in Prague. His primary interests are reactor thermal hydraulics and plant design. As a doctoral student at MIT, he participated in a design project developing nuclear power and propulsion systems for a manned mission to Mars. This design project concerned both the spaceship nuclear reactor and the Mars surface reactor.
George Druhak
Bio coming soon. Mr Druhak is an advisor on Mars vehicular systems.
Marilyn Dudley-Rowley, Ph.D.
Bio coming soon.
Michael Duke, Ph.D.
Michael Duke, Ph.D. has a PhD in Geochemistry and a masters degree in geology. He worked with NASA for 25 years in multiple leadership roles including principal investigator for the Apollo Lunar Sample program, has won multiple honors including the Presidential Meritorious Award, and is one of the top experts on lunar material refining. His most recent position was director of the general research laboratory in the Center for Commercial Application of Combustion in Space at Colorado School of Mines. He provides technical guidance and advice on Mars material refining processes.
Dick Edwards
Dick is a Systems Engineer with over 46 years of experience in the aerospace industry, including launch vehicle (beginning with the Atlas program) and component structural/thermal analyses and test, satellite design, analysis, test and manufacturing, and Space Shuttle System/Element Integration and Requirements/Verification. He has been recognized for major process improvements, and played key roles in both Space Shuttle accident investigations. With wife Anita Gale, he has conducted Space Settlement Design Competitions for high school students for over 20 years, now involving teams on six continents; Dick arranges facilities and services to keep the events running, and advises student participants on management practices. He is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Space Colonization Technical Committee; he and Anita co-author papers on space settlement requirements and technologies, and co-chair sessions on Space Colonization at technical conferences. Dick and Anita live in Nassau Bay, Texas, near Johnson Space Center in Houston. Dick advises 4Frontiers on space settlement requirements and risk assessment.
Edward Ellegood
Ed spent over 15 years developing commercial, government and academic space programs for the State of Florida. His career in space began as a space industry economist for the Florida Department of Commerce. He later supported the creation and operation of the Spaceport Florida Authority and the Florida Space Research Institute, serving on various commissions and boards. Mr. Ellegood's responsibilities have included business development, government and public affairs, and university and educational program development.
Anita Gale
Anita is a Systems Engineer with over 30 years of experience on the Space Shuttle program. Her area of expertise is Payload and Cargo Integration; her specialty is simplification of processes for future space vehicles, payloads, and ground operations. She holds three U.S. patents for technologies related to payload interface standardization. With husband Dick Edwards, she has conducted Space Settlement Design Competitions for high school students for over 20 years, now involving teams on six continents; Anita prepares background information and establishes design challenges for participants. She is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Space Colonization Technical Committee; she and Dick co-author papers on space settlement requirements and technologies, and co-chair sessions on Space Colonization at technical conferences. Anita and Dick live in Nassau Bay, Texas, near Johnson Space Center in Houston. Anita advises 4Frontiers on space settlement requirements development.
Thomas Gangale – Astrosociology
Thomas Gangale holds a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California, and a Master of Arts degree in international relations from San Francisco State University.
Upon graduating from USC, he was forced to turn down an offer from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to join the Voyager mission control team due to his prior commitment to the United States Air Force. He was both an airman and an officer in the USAF, serving as an air traffic controller, an F-4 weapon systems officer, and an historian. Also while on active duty, he served on the technical management teams of several satellite projects of the highest national priority involving national technical means of verification of strategic arms control agreements, as well as a Strategic Defense Initiative satellite program and two Space Shuttle payloads (STS-4 and STS-39). He was one of the authors of the Air Force Space Systems Division response to the NASA 90-Day Study on the Space Exploration Initiative for the human exploration of the Moon and Mars. As a civilian, he has contracted with the United States Navy to analyze maintenance data for the P-3 aircraft fleet. He has published numerous articles in aerospace and social science journals, has presented papers at several aerospace symposia, has written opinion editorials in major metropolitan newspapers, and has appeared as a guest on radio talk shows. He is a leading authority on timekeeping systems for other planets, and is the inventor of a class of orbits that will be essential to communication between Earth and crews in the vicinity of Mars. He was an original member of the Design and Project Management Team for the Mars Arctic Research Station, a NASA-related Mars analog research facility located near the Haughton Meteor Crater on Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic.
James Harris
James is a staff supervisor at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas. His current area of specialization includes network communications, server hardware, data storage, and mutli-user operating systems. Other areas of knowledge include electrical power supply, distribution, and control systems; building trades (electrical and plumbing primarily); heavy equipment operation; and emergency response. He holds various certifications in these areas. A lifelong student, James is currently pursuing a graduate degree in data communications. He is also an active member of The Mars Society where he participates in their analogue studies program at many levels.
Albert Harrison, Ph.D.
Dr. Harrison received his BA and MA in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan. In 1967, he joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Davis, and in 1979 he advanced to Professor of Psychology. Now Professor Emeritus, he is the author or co-author of approximately 100 papers in a wide range of journals, his books include Living Aloft: Human Requirements for Extended Spaceflight (with Mary Connors and Faren Akins, NASA, 1985), From Antarctica to Outer Space: Life in Isolation and Confinement (with Yvonne A. Clearwater and Christopher P. McKay, Springer-Verlag, 1991), After Contact: The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life (Plenum, 1997) and, Spacefaring: The Human Dimension (University of California Press, 2001) and is awaiting publication of Starstruck: Cosmic Visions in Science Religion and Folklore. Al was a member of NASA's Space Human Factors Engineering Science and Technology Working Group and is a member of the Permanent SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Committee of the International Academy of Astronautics. He is currently involved in planetary defense (protecting the Earth from asteroids and comets) and is currently chairing a subgroup of the Academy's Space Architecture Study Group. In December, 2003 Al was PI of a NASA-sponsored conference on new directions in behavioral health, and has recently edited a special supplement on this topic for Aviation, Space & Environmental Medicine (June, 2005). He is former deputy US editor of Systems Research and Behavioral Science and a science advisor to Bigelow Aerospace. He may be reached at aaharrison@ucdavis.edu, 530-757-3292, 756-2361 or by snail mail at the Department of Psychology, University of California Davis, Davis CA 95616 USA.
Andrew Kadak, Ph.D.
Andrew Kadak, Ph.D. is Professor of the Practice for the MIT Department of Nuclear Engineering. His current research is focused on new advanced reactor plant designs that are competitive while at the same time are safe using melt-free cores, do not contribute to proliferation, and produce waste forms that are directly disposable. He and his research assistants are working on a modular high-temperature gas-cooled pebble-bed nuclear reactor, which could be used as a demonstration of its practicality and competitiveness with natural gas. Dr. Kadak provides advice on nuclear energy systems.
Anthony Kendall
Anthony is currently a PhD student at Michigan State University studying hydrogeology. He has undergraduate degrees in both Mechanical Engineering and Astrophysics. His current research focuses on understanding groundwater systems using large computer models along with geophysical tools such as ground penetrating radar.
During the summer of 2005, Anthony spent a month on Devon Island in the High Canadian Arctic with the Mars Society at the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS). While at FMARS, he and other volunteers simulated Martian exploration under realistic environmental constraints. Anthony served as engineer and hydrologist for the six-person crew.
Anthony has begun a project studying Martian groundwater that involves modeling hypothetical Martian aquifer systems. These models will be used to try and pinpoint the role, if any, in the formation of water-related surface photographic features. Additionally, ground penetrating radar data from ESA and NASA spacecraft will be used to better describe the Martian subsurface within the models.
Chris McKay, Ph.D.
Chris McKay, Ph.D. is a planetary scientist with the Space Science Division of NASA's Ames Research Center. His current research focuses on the evolution of the solar system and the origin of life. He is actively involved in planning for future Mars missions including human settlements. Dr. McKay is also one of the world's leading researchers studying Titan, and has been involved in numerical modeling of planetary atmospheres. He has been involved with polar research since 1980, traveling to the Antarctic dry valleys and more recently to the Siberian and Canadian Arctic to conduct research in these Mars-like environments. He received his Ph.D. in AstroGeophysics from the University of Colorado in 1982 and has been a research scientist with NASA Ames since that time. Dr. McKay is a recipient of the prestigious Kuiper Award from the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society.
Shaun Moss
Shaun holds a BSc in Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Engineering, plus graduate studies in Information Systems and Robotics. He brings with him 16 years of experience with computers, primarily in software and database development. A space enthusiast for most of his life, Shaun is a member of the Mars Society, the Space Frontier Foundation, and the AIAA, and studies planetary science, astronomy, and technologies for extraterrestrial colonization and terraforming. Shaun currently works as an Industrial Designer in the mining industry in Australia, and is writing his first book, a science fiction novel about the colonization of the solar system. Shaun advises 4Frontiers on Mars metals refining and manufacturing processes.
John Pearson – Well Drilling
John brings with him 16 years of experience in the offshore drilling industry, working in deep-water locations around the world. He contributed to the Generation I Mars settlement programming study, and has experience in the installation, use and maintenance of high tech equipment in very remote locations. His experience is complemented with a keen interest in planetary science and a scientific background.
David Petrick – HVAC / Environmental Controls
Mr. David Petrick, Systems Analyst at TAI, is the technical contact for the study program. Mr. Petrick was the lead engineer in coordinating and conducting the feasibility study activities in NASA Phase 1 ISRU-related SBIR programs including managing the technical activities contributed by the Center for Space Resources (CSR). He has a MS degree in Chemical Engineering and five years of experience in the design and analysis of aerospace systems including cryogenic hardware. Mr. Petrick possesses excellent thermodynamic, heat transfer, and fluid flow analysis capability and is proficient in the use of finite element analysis software for support in developing cryogenic systems. His prior experience includes developing specifications for cryogenic systems and components, designing system hardware and test fixtures, component fabrication and assembly, test setup and testing, and development of hardware for spaceflight. He was designer, fabrication specialist, and data collection team member for the water mist fire suppression experiment flown on STS-107.
Georgi Petrov
Georgi Petrov is a specialist in high-performance architecture, particularly in the area of architecture for human space exploration on the surfaces of other planets. He holds graduate degrees in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For his architectural thesis he designed a permanently inhabited settlement on Mars, considering the design from a combined architectural, planning, and engineering points of view. Subsequently he tested some of the ideas at the Mars Society's Desert Research Station. Mr. Petrov is also an engineer and designer at Synthesis International. Professionally, Mr. Petrov has experience as an engineer at the structures group at the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, where he worked on high-rises and specialty glass and steel structures. Currently he is an architect at Laguarda Low Architects, specializing in mixed-use projects in European countries. Georgi was born in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Jane Poynter
Ms. Poynter is co-founder of Paragon Space Development Corporation, a leader in thermal control and life support in extreme environments. She has served as SPACEHAB’s Chief Scientist for its Ecosystem in Space experiment on the International Space Station, and three experiments with ants, bees and fish, which flew on STS-107, the Space Shuttle Columbia. Ms. Poynter holds a patent for the Autonomous Biological System. She is Chief Scientist for Carbon Sequestration for the Seawater Foundation, a non-profit that is developing untreated seawater-based agroforestry projects in coastal deserts. She developed carbon sequestration models and ground truth methodologies for carbon credit trading, and documentation for the World Bank’s BioCarbon Fund and the United Nations. Prior to her work with Paragon, Ms. Poynter was a member of the original team to live and work inside Biosphere 2, for which she led the design and implementation of the Intensive Agriculture. Her book, The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2, is now in stores.
Henry Robitaille, Ph.D.
Bio coming soon. Dr Robitaille is an advisor on agricultural systems.
Eugene Shwageraus, Ph.D.
Eugene Shwageraus, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. As a doctorate student at MIT, he participated in a design project developing nuclear power and propulsion systems for manned mission to Mars. Dr. Shwageraus advises the team, leveraging his considerable experience in nuclear reactor physics and engineering.
Sanjoy Som
Sanjoy has been fascinated by space exploration for as long as he can remember, and this fascination has been his main academic driver. After completing his BS (Florida Institute of Technology) and MS (University of Washington), both in Aerospace Engineering, he is now pursuing a doctoral degree at the UW in Planetary Sciences and Astrobiology. He strongly believes in a manned mission to Mars due to the international cooperation such an endeavor will promote, in addition to being a potential path towards human unification. Sanjoy has been trained in motorized exploration in the Swiss military. He holds a private pilot license and particular enjoys outdoor activities.
James Waldie, Ph.D.
James Waldie was a Research Scholar at the University of California San Diego's Space Physiology Laboratory, completing his PhD in Aerospace Engineering at RMIT University in 2005. He was involved in a NASA/Honeywell project to develop experimental flexible spacesuits, using mechanical counter pressure (MCP) technology. James is the Project Manager of MarsSkin at the Mars Society of Australia developing MCP simulation suits, and has been on the crew of Jarntimarra-1 (Australian Outback), Expedition One (MDRS, Utah), Expedition Two (Arkaroola, South Australia) and Leonardo (MDRS, Utah). James attended the International Space University Summer School in Adelaide in 2004 and the Next Generation Exploration Conference at NASA Ames in 2006. For the last 4 years James has also been working on the design and operations of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) at BAE Systems in Melbourne.
Larry Young, Ph.D.
Larry Young, Ph.D. is the Apollo Professor of Astronautics at MIT and the founding Director (1997-2001) of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute. In 1957 he was with the Sperry Gyroscope Company in the development of flight control systems. From 1958 to 1962 he was a member of the Research Staff at MIT where he worked on inertial guidance systems and on problems of man-machine interaction. He joined the MIT faculty in 1962 and co-founded the Man-Vehicle Laboratory that does research on the visual and vestibular systems, visual-vestibular interaction, flight simulation, space motion sickness and manual control and displays. During 1987-88 he was a Visiting Scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, and in 1991 was selected as a Payload Specialist for Spacelab Life Sciences 2. He spent two years in training at Johnson Space Center and served as Alternate Payload Specialist during the October 1993 mission. Dr. Young has been active on many professional and government committees, including the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, the Space Medicine and Biology Committee of the National Academy of Sciences, and serves on several NASA Advisory panels relating to life sciences and the Space Station. NASA recognized his achievements with a Space Act Award in 1995 for his development of an expert system for astronauts. The author of more than 200 journal articles, Prof. Young serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience and is an associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Space Science and Technology.
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