Gary Hudson (born 1949/1950
) has been involved in
private spaceflight
Private spaceflight is any spaceflight development that is not conducted by a government agency, such as NASA or ESA.
During the early decades of the Space Age, the government space agencies of the Soviet Union and United States pionee ...
development since 1970, for over 40 years.
Biography
Gary Hudson is currently Co-Founder and Chief Architect of Gravitics, Inc. a space station manufacturing company. Mr. hudson is also Executive Chairman of Oisin Biotechnologies, Inc. & President/Trustee of the Space Studies Institute. is Previously, Hudson was the founder of
Rotary Rocket
Rotary Rocket Company was a rocketry company that developed the Roton concept in the late 1990s as a fully reusable single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) crewed spacecraft. The design was initially conceived by Bevin McKinney, who shared it with Gary Hud ...
Company, which in spending ~$30 Million attempted to build a unique single stage to orbit launch vehicle known as the
Roton. Rotary Rocket built a landing test simulator (the Roton ATV) which flew three successful test flights in 1999. The book "They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus - An Incurable Dreamer Builds the First Civilian Spaceship" by Elizabeth Weil is about the Roton project and Gary Hudson.
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He also helped found Transformational Space T/Space in 2004.
He also helped found ]AirLaunch
AirLaunch was an aerospace design and development company headquartered in Kirkland, Washington. They had hoped to provide launch services for launching payloads into orbits around the Earth. This was to be realized through a method called ai ...
LLC which was awarded the DARPA/USAF FALCON project in 2003.
Previous projects included designs of the Phoenix SSTO, the Percheron
The Percheron is a horse breed, breed of draft horse that originated in the Huisne river valley in western France, part of the former Perche province, from which the breed takes its name. Usually gray (horse), gray or black (horse), black in col ...
, and other rockets, founder of Pacific American Launch Systems, and various consulting projects.
Currently, he is the President and CEO of the Space Studies Institute
Space Studies Institute is a not-for-profit organization that was founded in 1977 by Princeton University Professor Gerard K. O'Neill.
In 2009 SSI moved its operations from its long-term base in Princeton, New Jersey, to Mojave, California. S ...
.
Hudson appears as a character in the novel '' Fallen Angels'', along with his Phoenix SSTO.
Hudson is also a founding partner of Oisin Biotechnologies,senolytic
A senolytic (from the words ''senescence'' and ''-lytic'', "destroying") is among a class of small molecules under basic research to determine if they can selectively induce death of senescent cells and improve health in humans. A goal of this r ...
therapy (a treatment that removes senescent cells from the body). Hudson provided an initial seed donation to help fund the creation of the SENS Research Foundation
The SENS Research Foundation is a non-profit organization that does research programs and public relations work for the application of regenerative medicine to aging. It was founded in 2009, located in Mountain View, California, US. The organizat ...
.
See also
* Roton SSTO
* T/space
* Ansari X Prize
The Ansari X Prize was a space competition in which the X Prize Foundation offered a US$10,000,000 () prize for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable crewed spacecraft into space twice within two weeks. It was modeled af ...
* Percheron (rocket)
References
External links
T/Space
Gary Hudson entry in Spacefuture Who's Who
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They also laughed at Christopher Columbus
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American aerospace engineers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Single-stage-to-orbit