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Dr. David Livingston

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Dr. Alan Binder

Dr. Alan Binder is author of both "Lunar Prospector: Against All Odds" "Moon Quake" which is a science faction book published by Apogee. He is also the Director and Founder of the Lunar Research Institute in Tucson, AZ and a Lunar and Planetary Scientist with over 40 years of experience working in the NASA and European Space Programs. He was a Principal Investigator on the 1976 Viking Mars Lander Missions which made the first successful unmanned landings on Mars. He was the Principal Investigator of the NASA sponsored Lunar Prospector Mission which was launched to the Moon on January 6, 1998 and conducted a 19 month orbital mapping mission of the Moon and was the Principal Investigator of the Lunar Prospector Data Analysis program that was conducted under his leadership. This unmanned lunar mapping program started by Dr. Binder in 1989 as a philanthropic effort when he founded the Texas based, non-profit, tax exempt company, Lunar Exploration, Inc. (LEI), whose charter was to define, promote and find support for the Lunar Prospector Mission. This goal was reached in 1995 when NASA chose Lunar Prospector to be the 3rd mission in its new, low cost Discovery Program of Lunar and Planetary Missions, after which, LEI was dissolved. Dr. Binder then formed LRI in Arizona to carry on with the flight and scientific phases of Lunar Prospector and to expand the research program beyond the limited charter of LEI. Dr. Binder taught and did lunar research for 10 years in Germany at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, the University of Kiel and the University of Muenster (he speaks German fluently and some Spanish). Dr. Binder has a BS in Physics and Mathematics from Northern Illinois University, a Ph.D. in Geology and Planetary Science from the University of Arizona and Habilitated (became qualified to be a Professor in the German University System) at the University of Kiel. He is a Member of the Board of Space Education Initiatives, Inc. and the Board of Governors of the National Space Society. Dr. Binder has published over 80 scientific papers in the open literature.

Appeared on the following broadcasts:
#792 - Dr. Alan Binder was the guest for this Space Show program. Dr. Binder started the... (7/20/2007)
#605 - Dr. Alan Binder returned as the guest for this Space Show program. Alan began the interview... (10/8/2006)
#323 - Dr. Alan Binder returned to the The Space Show last night to discuss his new book,... (3/30/2005)
#205 - Dr. Alan Binder, the Director and Founder of the Lunar Research Institute in Tucson, AZ... (3/21/2004)

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