Dr Kelvin F Long
Aerospace Engineer, Astrophysicist, Author
BEng Msc PhD FBIS MInst CPhys
Biography
Dr Kelvin Long has been working on the challenges of deep space exploration flight since 2007. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree Aerospace Engineering with a thesis on thermal protection systems for spacecraft atmospheric re-entry, Master’s Degree Astrophysics with a thesis on the mathematical models of the solar wind, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, with a thesis specialising in the application of inertial confinement fusion ignition physics for advanced spacecraft propulsion for deep space missions. He has spent a lot of time in the United States and has had the good fortune to present at many universities, schools and conferences. He has also presented at NASA Goddard Spaceflight Centre, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, NASA Ames Research Centre in xxx, California, NASA Marshall Spaceflight Centre in Huntsville, Alabama, NASA Johnson Spaceflight Centre in Houston, Texas. He has also consulted with several commercial companies and the United States. He has been involved with the founding or co-founding of numerous for-profit aerospace/engineering and non-profit companies, in the United Kingdom and the United States, and where he has held executive leadership positions. He has also consulted for the Air Force and has previously enjoyed a long career in the nuclear defence industry. He has severed on numerous scientific committees including the Breakthrough Initiatives Project Starshot, a project for a gram-scale laser drive interstellar probe. He has also worked on interstellar precursor missions with the International Academy of Astronautics and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. He was formerly the Chief Editor of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, and he is a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society and a Chartered Member of the Institute of Physics. As well as having published dozens of peer reviewed academic papers he is also a published author of numerous books. He has worked on numerous television documentaries including for ATLAS Media and a National Geographic film. In 2017 on a visit to NASA Johnson Space Centre he was presented with a plaque from NASA/SAIC which reads “Your time, dedication and expertise in interstellar travel is greatly appreciated by the NASA community”.
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