Lifeboat Podcast for iTunes
Jerry Searcy will match all donations for this grant up to $2,500 by
June 6, 2006. Learn more about Jerry Searcy at
http://www.alcor.org/AboutAlcor/meetalc...l#searcy
The intent of this proposal is to develop an entertaining and
informative commercial for Lifeboat Foundation that will be a free
podcast on iTunes. The grant page is at http://lifeboat.com/ex/grant2
and you can make donations at https://lifeboat.com/ex/donations
Lifeboat Foundation EM Launch Competition
The Call for Proposals flyer is now available at http://lifeboat.com/ex/grant1 Proposals are due by June 9, 2006.
John Peters
An interesting article about John Peters, who is supplying room and board to one of our volunteers, is at http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/...128.html
Scientific Advisory Board News
James C. Bennett has joined our Scientific Advisory Board.
James C. Bennett has served as President and Chairman of the Board of
Internet Transactions Transnational since its founding in April 1997. ITTI is an international venture developing virtual private networks for
high-value Internet transactions in a high-trust environment. He is also
a member of the Board of Directors of XCOR Aerospace of Mojave,
California.
Jim served as President and Director of Advanced Technology Holdings,
Inc., ITTI's former parent corporation, between 1995 and 1998. He has
been professionally active in high technology and international
communications and trade since 1978, when he joined the Sabre
Foundation's programs for international trade and space development,
heading that organization's World Space Center, which specialized in
organizing training and applications programs in space-related
technologies for developing nations. That work lead to the founding of
the Free Zone Authority Services, Inc., a consulting group specializing
in free trade zone management services, which later merged to form The
Services Group, Inc. He served as a Director of FZAS (The Services
Group) until 1989.
In 1980, he cofounded Space Enterprise Consultants, the first consulting
firm devoted entirely to commercial space development. SEC reviewed a
wide range of potential space commercial activities and served a number
of customers in the commercial space field. This consulting practice was
continued by Jim on an individual basis following the disbanding of the
organization and expanded to non-space high-technology areas in 1991.
In 1981, work performed by SEC led to the founding of Arc Technologies,
Inc. (later known as Starstruck, Inc.) an early private space-launch
venture, which successfully conducted a launch test of its Dolphin
rocket in 1984. he served at Arc as Vice President, Government Affairs,
and was responsible for, among other things, negotiating the first
license for the launch of a commercially-developed rocket in the United
States. In addition, he was a central participant in the writing and
passage of the Commercial Space Launch Act, the legal charter for
private space activities in the U.S. He served four terms on the board
of directors of that company.
In 1985, Jim cofounded American Rocket Company, which developed the
unique, non-explosive hybrid rocket engine as a commercial project. As
Vice President, External Affairs of AMROC, he gained one of the first
launch permits issued by the Department of Transportation. From 1989 to
1990, he served as President of AMROC, and from 1985 to 1988 he served
on its board of directors. AMROC's technology was acquired by Space
Development Corporation, where it formed the basis for the engine used
by Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne in its pioneering private manned flight to
space.
After leaving American Rocket, he served as a consultant to a number of
clients in the space, communications, and other technology enterprises,
specializing in international on-line communications and commercial
space development. His clients have included the Mackinac Foundation,
American Rocket Company, Booz, Allen & Hamilton, The Services Group,
Inc., Weaver Aerospace Company, Astrotech Space Operations, L.P., a
subsidiary of Westinghouse, Gateway Ventures, Ltd., World Cities
Organization, Inc., The Space and Automation Research Center of the
Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, Lockheed Space Operations
and Sverdrup Technologies, Inc. on contract to the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, and Econ, Inc. on contract to the US Air
Force, and to the United Space Alliance, the LockheedMartin-Boeing North
American joint venture, the current contract operator of the Space
Shuttle for NASA.
Jim has been writing and speaking on technological developments and
public policy issues for the past decade. He wrote a weekly column, The
Anglosphere Beat, for United Press International between 2000 and 2003. His book "The Anglosphere Challenge: Why The English-Speaking Nations
Will Lead the Way in the Twenty-First Century" was published in October
2004. He is the Author of two public policy studies on space, technology
and international cooperation issues for the Reason Foundation. He was a
member of the White House Task Force on Space Commercialization in 1983. He has given testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives and the
California legislature, and served on U.S. Secretary of Transportation
Andrew Card's Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee from
1992 to 1994.
Jim is an Adjunct Senior Fellow of the Hudson Institute, and is a
contributor to two books from Hudson, including "2020 Forecast" and the
best-selling "The Re-Emerging Japanese Superstate in the Twenty-First
Century" (Tokuma Shoten, Tokyo, 2002, in Japanese). He has served as a
Director of the Foresight Institute, Palo Alto, California since 1986,
when that group was established to examine implications of emerging
technology, emphasizing molecular nanotechnology. In 1991 he also was
named a founding Director of the related Institute for Molecular
Manufacturing in Palo Alto. He is the founding president and Director of
the recently-formed Anglosphere Institute of Alexandria, Virginia, of
which Lady Margaret Thatcher and Robert Conquest have consented to be
Patrons. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the World Cities
Organization. He is a member of the Board of Advisors for the National
Space Society, a public interest group promoting the development of
space, having previously served as a member of its Board of Directors. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Los Angeles-based
Organization for the Advancement and Settlement of Space.
Read his blog at http://anglosphere.com/weblog/