GARY HUDSON
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Gary Hudson is Chief Designer and Co-Founder of the Transformational Space Corporation. Gary has worked in the field of commercial space for 34 years with an emphasis on development of innovative low-cost systems. In 1996, Gary co-founded Rotary Rocket, dedicated to the development of a single-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle that used a rocket-tipped rotor propulsion system. Rotary Rocket conducted three low-altitude flight tests of a full-scale vehicle. Gary is also the designer of the Phoenix family of launch vehicles which led to the DC-X.

Gary has been a Board Member of the Space Transportation Association, is currently a member of the Board of Advisors of the Space Frontier Foundation, and has presented testimony before the U.S. Congress on several occasions. In addition, Gary has taught at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, the Institute for Space and Astronautical Sciences of Tokyo University, and Stanford University.

Speech Topic: The road to truly private activities in space has been long and torturous. Recent progress including the 2004 flight of SpaceShipOne and the awarding of the X-Prize trophy and purse has broken the log-jam that held back human commerical space flight for many years.

This presentation will review some of the history and "lessons learned" of the past three decades of commercial space projects and focus on how private space can open the space frontier for all humanity.

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