{"id":3641,"date":"2013-07-26T15:40:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T15:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2013-07-26T15:40:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T15:40:38","slug":"citizens-in-space-selects-greg-kennedy-as-astronaut-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3641","title":{"rendered":"Citizens in Space selects Greg Kennedy as astronaut candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

An announcement from Citizens in Space<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Greg Kennedy Joins Citizen Astronaut Corps<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Citizens in Space, a project of the United States Rocket Academy, has announced the selection of its fifth citizen-astronaut candidate.<\/p>\n

Informal educator and aerospace historian Greg Kennedy will join four other citizen-astronaut candidates who are training to fly as payload operators on the Lynx spacecraft, currently under construction by XCOR Aerospace in Mojave, CA. XCOR expects to begin Lynx test flights later this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are pleased to welcome Greg to our astronaut group, \u201c said Edward Wright, citizen-astronaut candidate and project manager for Citizens in Space. \u201cHis experience and skills will help to strengthen our program and expand our outreach in new directions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greg Kennedy is currently director of education at NASTAR Center, a leading provider of spaceflight training for commercial vehicles, in Southampton, Pennsylvania. Previously, he was associate curator for manned spaceflight at the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC; director of the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas, Texas; founding director of the American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum in Fort Worth; executive director of the Space Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico; executive director of the Mid Atlantic Air Museum in Liberal, Kansas; and executive director of the American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am proud to join this program, which is providing everyday citizens with ground-breaking opportunities to participate in space science and space exploration,\u201c said Greg Kennedy.<\/p>\n

Kennedy is a noted aerospace historian whose books include Touching Space: The Story of Project Manhigh<\/em>, Apollo to the Moon<\/em>, The First Men in Space<\/em>, Rockets and Missiles of White Sands Proving Ground<\/em>, and Vengeance Weapon Two: Germany\u2019s V-2 Rocket<\/em>. He was also a co-author of The Space Shuttle Operator\u2019s Manual<\/em> and Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Kennedy is a qualified spacesuit technician and commercial spaceflight instructor. At NASTAR Center, he conducts training for commercial spaceflight participants and suborbital scientists, along with various workshops and summer-camp programs which he has created for teachers and students.<\/p>\n

Citizens in Space was originally known as \u201cTeachers in Space.\u201d Lt. Col. Steve Heck, a retired Air Force pilot and science teacher from Milford, Ohio was one of the first astronaut candidates to be recruited. \u201cIn 2012, the program was renamed and expanded to include a broader range of participants, including informal educators, university students, hardware hackers and science hobbyists,\u201d Heck said. \u201cGreg Kennedy represents our first outreach to the informal-education community. Today\u2019s announcement is only a taste of things to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Citizens in Space has purchased 10 flights on the XCOR Lynx spacecraft. To fill those flights, Citizens in Space is seeking 100 citizen-science experiments and 10 citizen astronauts to fly as payload operators.<\/p>\n

Current citizen-astronaut candidates include Greg Kennedy; Maureen Adams, an elementary-school teacher and principle from Killeen, Texas; Michael Johnson, an aviation instructor from Dallas, Texas; Lt. Col. Steve Heck (USAF-ret.), and Edward Wright.<\/p>\n

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