Derek Webber
From The Space Library
 Derek Webber, Google Lunar XPRIZE Judge | |
| Birth Name | Derek Webber |
|---|---|
| Birth Date | 24 July 1945 |
| Birth Place | South Shields, UK |
| Occupation | Engineer, Author |
| Nationality | Britain, United States of America |
| Notable Works | The Wright Stuff, Kids to Space, Beyond Earth |
Derek Webber is Washington, D.C. founder of Spaceport Associates, and is a leading authority on the public space travel business. He also functions as director of business development at Transformational Space Corporation, where he is working to introduce a viable orbital tourism business. He directed two landmark studies in commercial space business planning: the ASCENT Study of space markets, for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and the Futron/Zogby study of space tourism demand. Mr. Webber's career began as a launch vehicle and satellite engineer in Europe. He then began two decades of leadership in the international satellite communications business. He was successively head of procurement at Inmarsat, (contracting for over a billion dollars worth of communications satellites and their launch vehicles), and managing director of Tachyon Europe (providing satellite broadband and Internet access across the continent).
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 Derek Webber (extreme left) at Space Tourism Orbit Awards ceremony in Los Angeles in 2006 (others include Bigelow, Searfoss, Tito, Aldrin, Anderson, Diamandis). |
 Derek Webber giving a talk at TedX Budapest in 2014 on the Google Lunar XPRIZE. |
 Derek Webber and SpaceShipOne in Mojave in 2004 before the craft went to its final home at the Smithsonian. |
 Derek Webber and prototype Lunar Lander while in 2014 conducting monitoring of tests as judge of Google Lunar XPRIZE |
