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Spring Friends Dinner - May 6th, 2010 The Future of Public & Private Space Exploration with XCOR CEO, Jeff Greason Jeff Greason , Caltech alumnus ‘88, is President and CEO of XCOR Aerospace, based in Mojave, California. Jeff and his team have quietly made a business of crafting small reliable rocket engines. Their showpiece products are the engines, igniters and concept suborbital vehicles that will make private space travel a reality...sooner than later. Mr. Greason was cited by Time magazine in 2001 as one of the "Inventors of the Year" and was recently named to an Obama White House panel to review NASA programs. Mr. Greason co-founded XCOR in September 1999, after two years managing the propulsion team at the Rotary Rocket Company. Prior to joining Rotary Rocket, Mr. Greason served as a technical manager at Intel Corporation. In 1992, he received the Intel Achievement Award for his work discovering a less expensive BiCMOS technology, which became the basis for the Pentium product line. He holds 18 U.S. patents and has authored numerous publications. He holds a BS in engineering from the California Institute of Technology. “I had always been interested in space, and always thought I would get to go someday. Watching the Challenger investigation I realized that NASA was never going to open up space to the average person. “I became a convert to the heretical idea that space transportation could be done ‘privately’ on a for-profit basis. I joined AIAA, bought $2000 of aerospace books, and started reading. I spent my sabbatical from Intel working on business cases and design studies for this area. In 1997 I left Intel for Rotary Rocket; in 1999, when my team and I were laid off, we founded XCOR.” In addition to his technical contributions to space flight, Mr. Greason has been involved in space vehicle policy and regulation since 1998, during the rulemaking process for reusable launch vehicles, and has been an active member of the FAA’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) RLV Working Group since 1999. He testified in March 2004 at a public hearing before the President's Commission on Implementation of U.S. Space Exploration Policy (Moon, Mars and Beyond), a.k.a. the Aldridge commission. This is Jeff Greason's second speaking engagement with the Friends of the Caltech Y. Last time was in 2004. RSVP Now! RSVP's due April 29th. Date: May 6th, 2010 Location: $60 per person. $55 per student. Payable with RSVP by either check or credit card. Follow the easy RSVP e-form below OR print a copy of the RSVP and mail it to us if you prefer.
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