*12 United States Patents in space based lasers and engineering

*Author, “”Islam in Global History””, Vols. 1 and 2. Xlibris Corporation.

*Author, “”What Makes Us Human? A Spiritual Perspective””Xlibris Corporation

*Director, Encyclopedia of Islamic History

*Program Manager, SDI Programs for the US Department of Defense

*Scientist, Hubble Space Telescope

*Structures work on the Saturn, Apollo rockets and Lunar Land Rover.

*Institute Scholar, California Institute of Technology

*Scores of articles in science and technology journals

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Jeff Foust is an aerospace analyst, journalist and publisher. He is the editor and publisher of ”The Space Review” and has written for ”Astronomy Now” and ”The New Atlantis”.

He has a bachelor’s degree in geophysics from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Byrana Nagappa Suresh (born 12 September 1943) is a well known aerospace scientist of India. He served as the Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram during the period 2003-2007. He is known for his contribution to Space Capsule Recovery Experiments (SRE). Dr. Suresh is currently serving as the Director of Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram.

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Shrinivas R. Kulkarni FRS is a professor of astrophysics and planetary science at California Institute of Technology. He is on the Space Interferometry Mission science team and is the director of optical observatories at California Institute of Technology, including Palomar and Keck.

Kulkarni is the brother of Sudha Murty.

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Perhaps even more unexpected is the discovery of very powerful molecular hydrogen signals from the shock wave, seen by the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope which detects infrared radiation. The molecular hydrogen emission, which is seen through infrared spectral analysis using the Spitzer Space Telescope is one of the most turbulent formations of molecular hydrogen ever seen, and the strongest emission originates near the center of the green area in the visible light picture discussed earlier. This phenomenon was discovered by an international team led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology and includes scientists from Australia, Germany and China. The detection of molecular hydrogen from the collision was initially unexpected because the hydrogen molecule is very fragile and is easily destroyed in shock waves of the kind expected in Stephan’s Quintet. However, one solution is that when a shock front moves through a cloudy medium like the center of the group, millions of smaller shocks are produced in a turbulent layer, and this can allow molecular hydrogen to survive. Most notable is the fact that this collision can help provide a view into what happened in the postulated beginning of the universe some 14 billion years ago, since shocked molecular hydrogen is likely to be present in the early universe.

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She graduated from Arizona State University with a B.S. in Chemistry, and from California Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. in Geochemistry.

She was The Dee and John Whiteman Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences, and Director of the Center for Meteorites Studies at Arizona State University.

She served on the President’s Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy.

She was a member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute. She was NASA Goddard’s senior scientist.

She was the Director of Sciences and Exploration at Goddard Space Flight Center.

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Michelle Thaller (born in Waukesha, Wisconsin) is an American astronomer and research scientist. Thaller is currently the assistant director for Science Communication at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

From 1998 to 2009 she was a staff scientist at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, and later Manager of the Education and Public Outreach program

for the Spitzer Space Telescope, at the California Institute of Technology.

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In 1973 Stapp was awarded the Franklin Institute’s Elliott Cresson Medal.

In 1979 Stapp was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame. The New Mexico Museum of Space History, which houses the International Space Hall of Fame, includes a John P. Stapp Air & Space Park which holds Sonic Wind No. 1, a rocket sled ridden by Stapp.

In 1985, Stapp was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame for his work in aviation safety.

In 1991, Stapp was awarded the National Medal of Technology, “for his research on the effects of mechanical force on living tissues leading to safety developments in crash protection technology”.

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* (F1) Electric Fields, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

* (F2) Magnetic Fields, Applied Physics Laboratory/Johns Hopkins University, USA.

* (F3C) Cold Plasma, National Research Council of Canada, Canada.

* (F3H) Particles; Hot Plasma, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden.

* (F4) Waves, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden.

* (F5) Auroral Imager, University of Calgary, Canada

* (F6) Electron Beam, Max-Planck Institute, Germany

* (F7) Particle Correlator, Max-Planck Institute, Germany

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* Philip H. Ward, Jr. Medal from The Franklin Institute in 1979.

* National Medal of Technology – President Ronald Reagan presented Piasecki with the country’s highest technical honor in 1986.

* Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Lifetime Achievement award – awarded in 2005

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