Name Louis Friedman Fields Astronautics, Engineering | Books Starsailing Role Aerospace Engineer | |
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Born Louis Dill Friedman
July 7, 1941 (age 83)
Kingston, New York, U.S. ( 1941-07-07 ) Institutions AVCO, The Planetary Society, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Alma mater University of Wisconsin, Cornell University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thesis Extracting Scientific Information from Spacecraft Tracking Data (1971) Education University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cornell University Similar People Bruce C Murray, Harry Ash, Carl Sagan, Steven Spielberg, Elon Musk | ||
Organizations founded The Planetary Society | ||
Louis friedman discusses solar sailing on sound off
Louis Dill Friedman (born July 7, 1941) is an American astronautics engineer and space spokesperson. He was born in New York and raised in the Bronx. Dr. Friedman was a co-founder of The Planetary Society with Carl Sagan and Bruce C. Murray.
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Louis friedman looking back 35 years
Education and career
In 1961, he earned his Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics and engineering physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 1963, he graduated at Cornell University with a Masters of Science in engineering mechanics. In 1971, he graduated with a Ph.D. from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a thesis entitled, Extracting Scientific Information from Spacecraft Tracking Data.
He worked for AVCO Space Systems Division from 1963 to 1968. From 1970 through 1980, he was with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) leading the Advanced Planetary Studies and the post-Viking Mars Program. Other projects at the JPL include Mariner-Venus-Mercury, Planetary Grand Tour (Voyager), Venus Orbital Imaging Radar (Magellan probe), Halley's Comet Rendezvous-Solar Sail, and the Mars Program.