Gary Hudson (born 1949/1950
) has been involved in
private spaceflight
Private spaceflight is spaceflight or the development of spaceflight technology that is conducted and paid for by an entity other than a government agency.
In the early decades of the Space Age, the government space agencies of the Soviet U ...
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/Truste of the Space Studies Institute. is Previously, Hudson was the founder of
Rotary Rocket
Rotary Rocket Company was an aerospace company in the late 1990s. Its founders were among the first to recognize that the end of the Cold War represented a significant shift away from the militarization of space, to a new civilian-led, commerci ...
Company, which in spending ~$30 Million attempted to build a unique single stage to orbit launch vehicle known as the
Roton
In theoretical physics, a roton is an elementary excitation, or quasiparticle, seen in superfluid helium-4 and Bose–Einstein condensates with long-range dipolar interactions or spin-orbit coupling. The dispersion relation of elementary excita ...
. 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
t/Space (or Transformational Space Corporation) was an American aerospace company which participated in NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS), and later, Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) programs for delivering cargo and cr ...
in 2004.
He also helped found AirLaunch 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 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 or black in color, Percherons are well muscled, and ...
, 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 ...
.
Hudson appears as a character in the novel ''Fallen Angels A fallen angel is an angel that has been exiled or banished from Heaven.
Fallen Angels may also refer to:
Film and television
* ''Fallen Angels'' (1948 film), a Greek film by Nikos Tsiforos
* Fallen Angels (1985 documentary film) by Gregory Dark
...
'', along with his Phoenix SSTO.
Hudson is also a founding partner of Oisin Biotechnologies,liposomal
A liposome is a small artificial vesicle, spherical in shape, having at least one lipid bilayer. Due to their hydrophobicity and/or hydrophilicity, biocompatibility, particle size and many other properties, liposomes can be used as drug deliver ...
ly-delivered suicide gene
In the field of genetics, a suicide gene is a gene that will cause a cell to kill itself through the process of apoptosis (programmed cell death). Activation of a suicide gene can cause death through a variety of pathways, but one important cel ...
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
Cellular senescence is a phenomenon characterized by the cessation of cell division. In their experiments during the early 1960s, Leonard Hayflick and Paul Moorhead found that normal human fetal fibroblasts in culture reach a maximum of approxim ...
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, USA. The organiza ...
.
See also
* Roton SSTO
Rotary Rocket Company was an aerospace company in the late 1990s. Its founders were among the first to recognize that the end of the Cold War represented a significant shift away from the militarization of space, to a new civilian-led, commerci ...
* T/space
t/Space (or Transformational Space Corporation) was an American aerospace company which participated in NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS), and later, Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) programs for delivering cargo and cr ...
* Ansari X Prize
* Percheron (rocket)
The ''Conestoga'' was a launch vehicle design funded by Space Services Inc. of America (SSIA) of Houston, Texas. Conestoga originally consisted of surplus LGM-30 Minuteman stages with additional strap-on boosters, as required for larger payloads. ...
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