Will Oversee Competition At Wirefly X-Prize Cup In Alamogordo,
NM
The six judges from the 2006 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander
Challenge, with more than 200 years of space experience between
them, will return to judge the competition at this month's Wirefly
X-Prize Cup, representatives with the X-Prize Foundation tell
ANN.
They will decide a winner of the competition and other elements
of the $2 million prize. The judges, and some career highlights,
are:
Ed Bock, Retiree and Consultant to Lockheed
Martin. A former VP of Atlas Program and Manager of Lunar
Resource Utilization for Space Construction Study. Bock was
responsible for 40 consecutive successful Atlas launches in five
years, and is the former manager of the NASA Lunar Resource
Utilization for Space Construction Study, Shuttle/Centaur Program
Office, and the Tomahawk Cruise Missile
Richard C. Dunne, Consultant to Northrop Grumman
Corporation. Dunne is a former Public Affairs Officer for
Grumman Corporation during the production of the Apollo Lunar
Module. He also worked with American Airlines during transition
into jet era
Bill Gaubatz, Co-founder and President, SpaceAvailable
LLC. Gaubatz is the former head of the DC-X rocketry
program, as well as Former Executive VP of the X Prize Foundation.
He originated and managed development of the Delta Clipper reusable
spaceplane system concept
John Herrington, VP of Rocketplane and Former Shuttle
Astronaut. In 2002, Herrington flew 14 days on Endeavour,
the 16th Shuttle mission to the ISS. He is also a former Navy
Patrol Plane Commander, Mission Commander, and Patrol Plane
Instructor Pilot
S. Pete Worden, Center Director for NASA's Ames
Research Center. Worden is a Brigadier General in the US
Air Force. and Former Director of Space Command. He received the
NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal for directing the 1994 Clementine
lunar probe mission
Jeff Zweber, Air Force Research Lab's Space Vehicles
Directorate. Zweber is former Chief Technologist for the
Haley's Scaled Demonstrator Program, and former Area Coordinator
for the National Aerospace Initiative Office of the Director for
Defense, Research and Engineering
The Wirefly X Prize Cup is the result of a partnership between
the X Prize Foundation and the State of New Mexico, to build the
world's first true rocket festival. For 2007, the event has
partnered with Holloman Air Force Base to produce an action-packed
Air & Space Expo.
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