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Mike Gruntman

Expert on satellites, rockets, astronautics, space exploration and technology, space history and space education

Professor of Astronautics, Department of Astronautical Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering

Contact at: (213) 740-5536 or mikeg@usc.edu


Expertise:
  • satellites and rockets
  • astronautics
  • space science and technology
  • space exploration
  • interstellar flight
  • space instrumentation
  • space environments
  • space debris
  • space physics
  • spacecraft and space mission design
  • rockets
  • spacecraft propulsion
  • aerospace education
  • North Korea's ability to launch ballistic missiles
  • space and rocket history
Additional Information:
  • Author: Blazing the Trail. The Early History of Spacecraft and Rocketry, AIAA, 2004, which received the International Academy of Astronautics' Luigi Napolitano Award in 2006; From Astronautics to Cosmonautics (2007); Enemy Among Trojans. A Soviet Spy at USC (2010)
  • Corresponding Member, International Academy of Astronautics
  • Associate fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Member, advisory panels at NASA and the Department of Energy
  • Co-investigator, NASA space mission "Interstellar Boundary Explorer" to study the galactic frontier of the solar system (launched 2008)
  • Co-investigator, NASA mission "TWINS" to study the magnetosphere
  • Instructor, short courses on space technology for government and space industry
  • Founder, USC Astronautics Program
  • Director, master's program in space engineering

Foreign Languages:
Russian, Polish

More:
For more information go to:

http://astronauticsnow.com/MikeGruntman/
http://astronautics.usc.edu/faculty-staff/gruntman/