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Re: New Design Team Member



At 9:27 AM 3/12/96, David Levine wrote:
>I got this via email.  Thought he might be interested
>in the continuing discussions.  Please add him to your
>"To:" lists.  Thanks!
>
>-David
>
>===============================================================
>
>Subject: FYI: Rex Finke's Curriculum Vitae
>  Date:  Mon, 11 Mar 1996 22:03:10 -0500
>  From:  DotarSojat@aol.com
>    To:  David@interworld.com
>
>
>TO:   David Levine                                March 11, 1996
>FROM: Rex Finke
>
>     In view of the possibilities that 1) you might find a need
>for support in an area in which I have experience, or 2) you
>might like to know where I'm coming from when I send in a
>comment
>on some topic or activity of the Starship Design Project, I am
>providing you with my curriculum vitae, as follows--
>
>REINALD G. (REX) FINKE
>  <DotarSojat@aol.com>
>
>SPECIALTIES
>  Systems Analysis/Modeling, Flight Mechanics, Propulsion, Heat
>     Transfer
>
>EDUCATION
>  A.B., Astronomy and Physics, 1949; M.A., Physics, 1951, Ph.D.,
>     Nuclear Physics, 1954; UC Berkeley
>
>SELECTED EXPERIENCE
>  Teaching Assistant, Physics, UC Berkeley, 1949-50
>  Operation and maintenance of 32-MeV proton linear accelerator,
>     UCRL Berkeley, 1950-54
>  Fast photography for high-explosives/nuclear-explosives
>testing,
>     UCRL Livermore/Nevada, 1954-55
>  Nuclear rocket (Project Rover) design, UCRL Livermore, 1955-57
>  Nuclear ramjet (Project Pluto) design, UCRL Livermore, 1957-62
>  Nuclear reactor operation, UCRL Livermore(Nevada), 1959-62
>  Thermonuclear-explosives design, UCRL Livermore, 1961
>  Orion pusher-plate temperature calculation, IDA, 1962
>  Space station conceptual design, IDA, 1963-65
>  Reusable launch vehicle conceptual design, IDA, 1964-70
>  Space Shuttle design, IDA, 1969-71
>  Nuclear-propulsion analysis for lunar mission, IDA, 1970
>  Launch-vehicle (principally Shuttle) performance, operations
>     and cost analyses, IDA, 1973-88, 1991
>  Beam-weapons analyses, IDA, 1974-86, 1995
>  Strategic Defense Initiative analyses, IDA, 1983-92
>  Relativistic mechanics for interstellar flight, 1987-present
>  Mars-mission nuclear-propulsion analysis, 1990-91
>  Retired 1992; presently Adjunct Staff Member, IDA
>  Author or co-author of 14 open and 75 limited-distribution
>     publications
>  Fellow, American Astronautical Society (conferred 1986)


P.S.
Dave, what have you forwarded to him of our recent correspondence?

Kelly


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Kelly Starks                       Internet: kgstar@most.fw.hac.com
Sr. Systems Engineer
Magnavox Electronic Systems Company
(Magnavox URL: http://www.fw.hac.com/external.html)

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