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One of the nation’s leading experts in space flight safety and risk
assessment, Dr. Feng Hsu is now supportting suborbital space flight
by helping guide the International affairs of Xtraordinary Adventures.
Dr. Feng Hsu is a U.S. expert with several decades of experience in the field
of Risk Analysis, Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) assessment for complex
engineering systems. Formerly a staff research engineer at world renowned Brookhaven
National Laboratory, Dr. Hsu has worked extensively on reliability, probabilistic
risk assessment (PRA) and management theory and methodology research for nuclear
reactor safety since the 1980s.
He became senior staff engineer/scientist and
joined NASA’s SAIC team in the Shuttle & Exploration Analysis Department
at Johnson Space Center in Houston in 2000. Dr. Hsu was the lead engineering
analyst and project manager working as technical expert in the space center
on NASA’s key program areas, such as PRA, SMA for the Space Shuttle,
International Space Station as well as the risk-informed design assessment
for the new generation space launch and crew exploration vehicle systems.
Dr.
Hsu has published extensively and co-authored several books by CG Publishing
and Aerospace Technology Working Group. For his work, Dr. Hsu has also won
numerous research and service awards from NASA, among others. After several
years as head of Integrated Risk Managemnt at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight
Center, Dr. Hsu has decided to take on greater challnges to support the private
space industry and is now senior vice president of Systems Engineering and
Risk Management for Space Energy, and is fully dedicated to the development
of a space solar power satellite demo project for delivering safe, permanently
renewable, environmentally friendly and economically feasible space solar power
for sustainable development of mankind.
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