Rand Simberg

Rand Simberg is a recovering aerospace engineer with over four decades of experience in the space industry, with multiple engineering degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and West Coast University in Los Angeles. Since 1993, after over a decade in engineering and management at the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California and with Rockwell International in Downey, California, he has been an entrepreneur and consultant in space technology, business development, regulatory, and market issues relating to commercial and personal spaceflight.

A former adjunct scholar with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, he has written many pieces for Popular Mechanics, Fox News, America Online, PJMedia, National Review, Reason magazine, The Weekly Standard, the Washington Times, TCSDaily, and others, and extensive essays on space policy and technology for the quarterly journal The New Atlantis.

A member of the International Institute of Space Law, he is the author of the highly acclaimed book Safe Is Not An Option: Overcoming The Futile Obsession With Getting Everyone Back Alive That is Killing Our Expansion Into Space.