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 Friedman in the 1970s | |
| Born | Louis Dill Friedman July 7, 1941 Kingston, New York, U.S. |
| Education | University of Wisconsin, Madison (BS) Cornell University (MS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | astronautics, engineering |
| Institutions | AVCO, The Planetary Society, Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Thesis | Extracting Scientific Information from Spacecraft Tracking Data (1971) |
Louis Dill Friedman (born July 7, 1941) is an American astronautics engineer and space spokesperson. He was born in New York and raised in the Bronx.[1] Dr. Friedman was a co-founder of The Planetary Society with Carl Sagan and Bruce C. Murray.
Education and career
[edit]In 1961, he earned his Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics and engineering physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 1963, he graduated at Cornell University with a Masters of Science in engineering mechanics. In 1971, he graduated with a Ph.D. from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a thesis entitled, Extracting Scientific Information from Spacecraft Tracking Data.[2]
He worked for AVCO Space Systems Division from 1963 to 1968. From 1970 through 1980, he was with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) leading the Advanced Planetary Studies and the post-Viking Mars Program.[3] Other projects at the JPL include Mariner-Venus-Mercury, Planetary Grand Tour (Voyager), Venus Orbital Imaging Radar (Magellan probe), Halley's Comet Rendezvous-Solar Sail, and the Mars Program.[2]
Projects, Print, and Speeches
[edit]- Human spaceflight : from Mars to the stars. Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson 2015, ISBN 978-0-8165-3146-2.
- Star Sailing: Solar Sails and Interstellar Flight, Louis Friedman, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1988, ISBN 978-0-471-62593-3, 146 pgs.
- Project Director of the Solar Sail mission by The Planetary Society and Cosmos Studies: Cosmos I
- Part of the technical team on the Mars Balloon and Mars Rover for The Planetary Society
- Asked to participate in both Congressional and Administrative reviews for American and Russian space missions[3]
- 2004 Congressional Hearings on Space: United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation – NASA Future Space Mission [1]
- ”Think Bigger About Mars” Louis Friedman, June 27, 2000
- ”A Space Nerd Responds” Louis Friedman, August 13, 2007
- ”Where will the Next 50 Years in Space Take Us? Expert Opinions” Popular Mechanics, September 2007
Associations
[edit]- The Planetary Society – Executive Director and author of World Watch in the Planetary Report
- Sigma Xi
- American Astronautical Society
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics – Congressional Fellow 1978-79
References
[edit]- ^ Marquis Who's Who, Inc (1984). Who's who in Frontier Science and Technology. Vol. 1. Marquis Who's Who. ISBN 9780837957012. ISSN 0749-2324. Retrieved 2015-01-04.
- ^ a b The Planetary Society Archived 2008-05-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b "The Space Show hosted by: Dr. David Livingston". thespaceshow.com. Archived from the original on 2015-01-04. Retrieved 2015-01-04.
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