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Broadcast 468 (Special Edition)	Listen to the show!
Aired on March 14th, 2006
Guest: Dr. Lee S. Valentine
Dr. Lee Valentine returned to The Space Show for this program. We discussed many subjects including the Space Studies Institute (www.ssi.org), closed system environments for lunar and space settlements/habitats, asteroid deflection and planetary defense, to space investing with the entrepreneurial companies and other commercial space business ventures. Dr. Valentine spoke in some detail about planetary defense, the gravity tractor, and even the Planetary Defense Conference which will be held next year. We also spent a considerable amount of time on the first segment addressing closed environmental systems for the coming space habitats. During this program, Dr. Valentine expressed his optimism regarding the future of the private sector developing space resources and lowering launch costs and we both agreed upon the important contribution being made by the entrepreneurial companies, even those that in the end may not be successful in their ventures. You can contact Dr. Valentine with your comments or questions through me at drspace@thespaceshow.com or directly at info@ssi.org.

About our guest...

Dr. Lee S. Valentine
Dr. Lee S. Valentine is the Executive Vice President of the Space Studies Institute in Princeton, NJ. Lee Valentine, M.D., earned his B.S. in science at Penn State and his medical degree at Jefferson Medical College. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and has been a member of AIAA since the 1970’s. Dr. Valentine is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Space Studies Institute in Princeton 1980 to present: Dr. Valentine is proud to have been involved in financing Lunar Prospector, Mass Driver III, production of glass /glass composites from lunar simulant, and magnetic beneficiation of lunar regolith to obtain clean anorthite suitable for use in lunar aluminum process. In addition, he has been involved with Spacewatch at the University of Arizona, the design of satellite solar power stations optimized for construction from lunar materials with Professor Leik Myrabo of RPI. He has also been associated with initial analytical laser launch studies with Prof. William Jewell, Cornell University, and initial Closed Ecological Life Support System prototype work. He is the editor of Settling Circumsolar Space, Vol. 13 of Princeton/SSI Conference on Space Manufacturing and Space Settlement. He is a co author of Mass Drivers for Planetary Defense and a member of the Board of Directors of ProSpace.

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