Rand Simberg

Rand Simberg is a recovering aerospace engineer with over four decades of experience in the space industry. Early in his career, he accumulated over a decade of experience in engineering and management at the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California, and Rockwell International in Downey, California. Since leaving Rockwell in 1993, he has been a consultant in space technology and business development as well as a technology entrepreneur. He also advises on regulatory and market issues pertaining to commercial and personal spaceflight. He has been cited by the Office of Technology Assessment as an expert in space transportation.

Mr. Simberg holds multiple engineering degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Master’s degree in technical management from West Coast University in Los Angeles. He is a former adjunct scholar with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and has written many pieces for Popular Mechanics, Fox News, America Online, PJMedia, National Review, Reason magazine, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Times, and TCSDaily, among others. He has also written extensive essays on space policy and technology for the quarterly journal, The New Atlantis. He is the author of “Safe Is Not An Option: Overcoming the Futile Obsession with Getting Everyone Back Alive that is Killing Our Expansion into Space.”