Name Jeff Greason | ||
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Organizations founded XCOR Aerospace | ||
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Jeff Greason is the CEO and Co-Founder of Agile Aero, Inc., a company targeting rapid prototyping capabilities for aerospace vehicles. He is one of the founders of XCOR Aerospace and was its CEO from 1999 through February 2015, after which he served as Chief Technologist. In November 2015 Greason left XCOR with two other founders to form Agile Aero. He was a member of the XCOR Board of Directors until he resigned in March 2016 and no longer has any connection with XCOR Aerospace.
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- Tedxsanjoseca jeff greason rocket scientist making space pay and having fun doing it
- Jeff greason isdc 2011 keynote address a settlement strategy for nasa 42 min
- Career
- Honors and patents
- References
Jeff greason isdc 2011 keynote address a settlement strategy for nasa 42 min
Career
Greason has been active in the development of the regulatory environment for the commercial space flight industry. He has worked with the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) since 1998, and has served on the advisory group to AST, COMSTAC as a member of the working group on reusable launch vehicles (RLV) since 2000, and as an invited full member of COMSTAC since 2005. He was one of the leaders of the development of the Commercial Space Launch Amendment Act of 2004. He co-founded the Commercial Spaceflight Federation (formerly Personal Spaceflight Federation).
Previously, he was the team lead at Rotary Rocket for engine development, and earlier worked at Intel.
Greason was named a member of the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee on May 7, 2009. Since then he has given a number of speeches on space policy and space settlement.
In July 2003, Greason testified before the joint House/Senate subcommittee hearings on Commercial Human Spaceflight that addressed the transition from aircraft regulation to launch vehicle regulation for suborbital vehicles.
Honors and patents
Time magazine named Greason an Inventor of the Year in 2002 for his team’s work on the EZ-Rocket.
Greason holds 22 U.S. patents.