Mitchell Burnside Clapp
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Mitchell Burnside Clapp | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Occupation | Engineer |
| Spouse(s) | TJ Burnside Clapp |
| Engineering career | |
| Employer(s) | Pioneer Rocketplane, Embassy Aerospace, DARPA, USAF Test Pilot School, Millennium Space Systems |
| Significant advance | Aerial propellant transfer technology for spaceplanes |
Mitchell Burnside Clapp is an Australian-American aerospace engineer, former test pilot, and musician. He received Bachelor of Science degrees in Physics, Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Russian, as well as a Master of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]
Career[]
In the late 1980s and 1990s, Burnside Clapp attended the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and worked on the YA-7F and DC-X projects.[2]
Together with Robert Zubrin and Chuck Lauer, Burnside Clapp founded Pioneer Rocketplane in 1996.[3] He and Zubrin authored a piece in the MIT Technology Review of January/February 1998 calling for more air-launched rockets.[4]
From 2011 to 2015, Burnside Clapp served as a program manager at DARPA.[1]
Personal life[]
He is married to fellow filker TJ Burnside Clapp, formerly of the musical group Technical Difficulties. They have three children.[2] He has won two Pegasus Awards for his music.[2]
References[]
- ^ a b http://www.terrapinn.com/exhibition/connected-africa/speaker-mitchellburnside-CLAPP.stm
- ^ a b c http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/people/mitchell-burnside-clapp.html
- ^ https://www.airspacemag.com/space/the-o-prize-22066370/?page=3
- ^ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/400153/aviations-next-great-leap/
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- MIT School of Engineering alumni
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