Google Lunar XPrize назначил судей

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The Google Lunar XPRIZE Judging Panel includes:

• David Swanson, Senior Director for Safety and Mission Assurance and Orbital Sciences Corporation (chairman). After nearly 25 years of commissioned service in the U.S. Air Force, Swanson retired out of the Space and Missile Systems Center as its Director of Engineering. His space experience includes space system development, operations, procurement, education, surveillance and senior leadership.

• Elisabeth Morse, space mission systems engineer (vice-chair). A space flight systems engineer, Morse has worked on multiple planetary science missions from the proposal phase to the verification phase, including accommodation of science instruments and cameras on the Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity) Rover.

• Professor Alan Wells, vice-president of NEREUS, the Network of European Regions using Space Technology (vice-chair). Wells has worked on ten space missions in space astrophysics, planetary science and earth observation. Highlights included NASA's SWIFT mission to observe gamma ray bursts, for which he was UK Lead Investigator for the X-ray Telescope and also Co-Science Operations Director post launch.

• John Jay Kurtz, engineering manager at General Dynamics Robotic Systems. An Engineering Manager at General Dynamics Robotic Systems, Kurtz has directed numerous advanced robotics technology programs.

• Dr Derek Lang, space industry consultant with experience in technical and programmatic issues for satellites, launch vehicles satellites, government regulations and policy. Lang has held important roles related to a number of US launch vehicles and in small startups. He has had extensive dealings in the international environment, including launches and mission integration with Russians and Europeans and spacecraft development with the Middle East and Asia.

• Dr Charles Reynerson, industry expert in all phases of space missions. Reynerson has a long track record of working in technical and project management roles on advanced space projects for NASA, DoD, NRO, Boeing, Ball Aerospace and DigitalGlobe.

• Derek Webber is currently Executive Director of Spaceport Associates, where for over a decade he has been a strong advocate for space tourism, specializing in developing business cases and regulatory requirements, and demonstrating how commercial human spaceflight can contribute to space exploration development. He is author of the book “The Wright Stuff: the Century of Effort Behind your Ticket to Space”, providing a parallel history of aviation and rocketry, and has served as a docent at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution.

• Professor John Zarnecki, a Director of the International Space Science Institute in Bern, Switzerland, and part-time chair at the Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics. Zarnecki has over 30 years of experience of world-leading space research, including developing instrumentation for the Hubble Space Telescope, the Giotto mission that flew past Halley’s comet in 1985, and the Cassini/Huygens mission to the Saturnian system. For the Huygens probe, he led the team that provided one of the scientific instruments that landed on Saturn's largest moon, Titan - the furthest landing from Earth by a spacecraft to date.

• An additional judge will be announced at a later date.