4/1/2009

James A. Muncy will be a guest speaker by teleconference on Thursday, April 9th from 2-3:15 p.m. in Ryan Hall Room 111, for the Space Studies 560 class. Students will have the opportunity to talk with Mr. Muncy about space advocacy as he is one of its early pioneers having co-founded The Space Frontier Foundation and working with Members of Congress to effect space
development in general and specifically New Space Development. This is a rare opportunity to speak to a space advocate that knows how to make advocacy effective! Local students and faculty are encouraged to participate in this classroom discussion.

This discussion will be made available to distance ed students via a live audio webcast, as well as archived online at the space.edu website. Students will be able to email questions for Mr. Muncy during the live show. Details to access the live broadcast are provided below Mr. Muncy's bio.

****BIO****
James A. M. (Jim) Muncy is the President and founder of PoliSpace. Mr.
Muncy started PoliSpace, an independent space policy consultancy, in early
2000 to help space entrepreneurs and intrepreneurs succeed at the nexus of
space business, technology, and public affairs. His clients include several
firms in the emerging private human space flight industry and companies
offering commercial services to NASA spaceflight programs. His first client
was the U.S. Air Force's Military Space Plane program. Immediately prior to
establishing this consultancy, Muncy spent over five years working in the
U.S. Congress. From 1997 until 2000 he served on the Professional Staff of
the House Science Committee's Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee. In
addition to being Chairman Dana Rohrabacher's staff designee, Muncy held the
lead responsibility on issues and programs such as reusable launch vehicles,
human space flight commercialization, military space technology, export
control reform, range modernization, and future NASA programs. Prior to
this, Muncy spent over two years on Rep. Rohrabacher's personal staff as his
Legislative Assistant for Space. Prior to joining congressional staff at
the start of 1995, Muncy had spent several years as a space policy and
marketing consultant for various clients including NASA, NOAA, private
industry, and the not-for-profit space community. In the mid-1980's he
worked for two and a half years as a policy assistant in the White House
Office of Science and Technology Policy under President Reagan, where he
served as the White House's Staff Liaison to the National Commission on
Space. Muncy began his work in space policy in 1981 as a staff advisor in
the Office of Congressman Newt Gingrich, where he helped Mr. Gingrich
co-found the Congressional Space Caucus and promote visionary space policy
legislation and initiatives. A long-time leader in the space advocacy
community, Muncy co-founded the Space Frontier Foundation in 1988 and served
as its Chairman of the Board for six years. Earlier he had served on the
Board of Directors of both the National Space Society and the L5 Society.
He is a frequent speaker and writer on space policy issues. Mr. Muncy holds
an MS in Space Studies from the Center for Aerospace Sciences at the
University of North Dakota and a BA from the University of Virginia, where
he was an Echols Scholar.

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TO WATCH LIVE
in Realmedia player:
rtsp://realmedia.aero.und.edu/encoder/spst_colloquium.rm

In a web browser:
http://realmedia.aero.und.edu:7070/ramgen/encoder/spst_colloquium.rm

Email questions for Mr. Muncy to dlivings@davidlivingston.com

The live feed will be active about 5 minutes before the start of the presentation.

This semester's colloquium presentations can also be accessed at the Space.Edu Colloquium website following the live presentation at http://www.space.edu/Academic%20Programs/colloquium.aspx
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