 Astronaut Philip K. Chapman Dr. Philip Kenyon Chapman was the first Australian-born American astronaut, serving for about five years in NASA Astronaut Group 6 (1967). Astronaut Philip K. Chapman (Australian b1935) This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ...
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U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit (MMU) outside the Challenger in 1984. ...
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Education Born on 5 March 1935 in Melbourne, Australia, his family moved to Sydney and he was educated at Parramatta, received a bachelor of science degree in Physics and Mathematics from Sydney University in 1956, and a master of science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1964 and a Doctorate of Science in Instrumentation in 1967 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. March 5 is the 64th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (65th in leap years). ...
1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The City of Melbournes coat of arms The central business district of Melbourne, viewed from the north Alternate meanings: Melbourne (disambiguation) Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia, with a population of 52,117 in the Central...
Sydney Harbour looking south from the vicinity of the Sydney Harbour Bridge towards the CBD skyline; the Opera House is visible in the background on the left. ...
Parramatta is a city, suburb and Local Government Area in Sydney, Australia, 25 kilometres west of the central business district (CBD) in Western Sydney. ...
The University of Sydney, established in 1850, is the oldest university in Australia, and it is located in Sydney, the capital city of the state of New South Wales. ...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a research and educational institution located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is a widely renowned leader in science and technology, as well as in many other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ...
Work Chapman served with the Royal Australian Air Force Reserve from 1953 to 1955. The RAAF Roundel is based on that of the British Royal Air Force, with the central circle replaced by a Kangaroo, a symbol of Australia. ...
From 1956 to 1957, he worked for Philips Electronics Industries Proprietary Limited in Sydney, Australia.
Chapman served for two years as an expeditioner in Antarctica with the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE), for the International Geophysical Year (IGY) as an auroral/radio physicist. Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (acronym ANARE is normally pronounced an-ah-ree) has since 1947 served Australia in south polar regions. ...
The International Geophysical Year or IGY was an international scientific effort that lasted from July 1, 1957, to December 31, 1958. ...
From 1960 to 1961, he was an electro-optics staff engineer in flight simulators for Canadian Aviation Electronics Limited in Dorval, Quebec. His next assignment was a staff physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked in electro-optics, inertial systems, and gravitational theory until the summer of 1967. Dorval is a former city in southwestern Quebec, Canada in the western part of the Island of Montreal; pop. ...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a research and educational institution located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is a widely renowned leader in science and technology, as well as in many other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ...
After gaining US citizenship, Chapman was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in August 1967. He trained as an astronaut, and served as the Apollo 14 Mission Scientist before resigning near the close of the Apollo Program in July 1972, reportedly when it became apparent that he would not fly into space due to financial cutbacks at NASA. Citizenship is membership in a political community (originally a city but now usually a state), and carries with it rights to political participation; a person having such membership is a citizen. ...
Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the Apollo program and the third mission to land on the moon. ...
Description Role: Earth and Lunar Orbit Crew: 3; CDR, CM pilot, LM pilot Dimensions Height: 36. ...
He was then employed by the Arthur D. Little Company, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts and was noted as author of the paper "Laser Propulsion from the Moon" delivered at the annual conference of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 14-17 May 1979. City Hall - Cambridge MA Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. ...
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the scholarly society for the field of aerospace engineering. ...
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When with Arthur D. Little, Dr. Chapman worked with Dr. Peter Glaser, the "Father" of the solar power satellite (SPS). Dr. Chapman developed much of the technology for the SPS and has several publications on the topic of non-tradiditional energy. Since the 1970s, Japan as a nation has been continuign to build the SPS.
In the mid-80s, Dr. Chapman shifted his focus to commercial space -- building private companies that develop products and services for space-based, as well as terra-oriented businesses. He served as the president of the L5 Society which was intrumental in influencing US national policy against signing the Moon Treaty which would have excluded any commercial activity on the Moon.
Dr. Chapman was and still is a member of the Citizen's Advisory Council for Space Policy which assisted the Reagan administration research and policy papers on space policy. The Council supported the space-based defense system, Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), that its opponents dubbed "Star Wars." Proponents assert that the SDI was key to Gorbachov's decision to end the Soviet military space program.
In 1989, Dr. Chapman led a privately funded scientific expedition to Antartica. Four scientists including Dr. Thomas Budinger MD of UC-Berekely and 12 supporting crew collected rock and algae samples and core samples from a meltwater lake that has not been disturbed for thousands of years.
From 1989-1994, Dr. Chapman was the president of Echo Canyon Software that gave Windows developers visual programming which, until that time, was only available on Macintosh platforms. It was the precursor to Microsoft's Visual Basic.
In 1998, Dr. Chapman was Chief Scientist of Rotary Rocket (San Mateo, CA). That company built and test flew the manned, re-useable space vehicle, Roton.
Since 2003, he has been associated with the "Center for Enterprise in Space" in Scottsdale, Arizona. Downtown Scottsdale Statue Scottsdale (Pima Vaá¹£ai S-veá¹£onÄ) is a city located in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA. Named by the New York Times as The Beverly Hills of the Desert and by Travel Channel as one of the most luxurious destinations in the nation, Scottsdale has become internationally...
In 2004, Dr. Chapman presented the paper "Power from Space and the Hydrogen Economy" at the 55th International Astronautical Congress (Vancouver CANADA) where he showed data and analysis that the earth contains a vast quantity of methane hydrates, a source of energy which can sustain projected requirements for 800 years. See IP address below to full text of the paper.
Also in 2004, Dr. Chapman became Chief Scientist of Transform Space ("t/Space," Reston, VA, http://www.transformspace.com/) and of its sister company, Air Launch. t/Space received $6 Million in funding from NASA to outline a framework for commercially-built vehicles to support the International Space Station. Air Launch is working under contract from the US Air Force to develop technology and systems for air launched space vehicles.
Honorary Positions - Advisor to the Space Frontier Foundation
Publications / Articles - [1] "Power from Space and the Hydrogen Economy," 55th International Astronautical Congress, Vancouver CANADA, October 4-8, 2004.
- [2] "The Failure of NASA: And A Way Out" May 30, 2003, Space Daily
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