
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
- 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/
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