Rand Simberg
Rand Simberg is a space technologist, business consultant and policy
analyst with over three decades of experience in the space industry,
starting with the Aerospace Corporation, and later, as a project manager
with Rockwell International, on advanced space projects. Since 1993, he
has been an independent entrepreneur and consultant, supporting both
major aerospace companies such as Boeing and Northrop Grumman, and
startups such as Masten Space Systems and XCOR Aerospace. For the last
decade, he has written extensively on space topics from a free-market
perspective in venues such as The New Atlantis, Popular Mechanics,
National Review, AOL News, Fox News, the Washington Examiner and other
publications. He is an adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise
Institute, and since January 2011 he has led the Competitive Space Task
Force, an ad hoc organization formed to provide guidance to conservative
and Republican lawmakers on appropriate space policy in the wake of
ongoing policy failures and the need for fiscal sanity. In conjunction
with that activity, he co-produced a short web video on the need to
redirect big-government space activities to ones more in consonant with
the traditional American values of free enterprise and competition. Mr.
Simberg has multiple engineering degrees from the University of Michigan
in Ann Arbor and a degree in technical management from West Coast
University in Los Angeles.

Author, Engineer, Aerospace Consultant