Joseph E. Palaia, IV, MSc.
Joseph
E.
Palaia, IV, M.Sc.
is Vice President of Operations / R&D at 4Frontiers Corporation
and is Manager at NewSpace Center, LLC.
At
4Frontiers Corporation, Joe
served in both engineering and management roles in two comprehensive
Mars settlement design efforts. He has coauthored technical papers on
the topics of Mars surface nuclear power planet design, Mars settlement
architecture and space economics, and recently completed a book chapter
on the topic of the economics of energy on Mars. His most recent
project, a spin-off venture from 4Frontiers, is NewSpace Center, LLC
which is creating a new space-themed attraction and research facility in
central Florida.
In various appointments
throughout his
career, he has developed electrical and mechanical systems in robotics,
plasma processing and space propulsion applications. He is the
recipient of the 2005 Peter Diamandis Leadership Award and the 2007
Young Professionals Entrepreneurship Prize, awarded by the Luigi Gerardo
Napolitano Society and the International Astronautical
Federation.
He also served as executive officer and engineer for the Mars Society’s
2009 FMARS expedition.
Joe coauthored
Mission to Mars: How to get people there and back with Nuclear
Energy,
Onboard plasmatron hydrogen production for improved vehicles,
Lunar Environment Utilization,
A Permanent Settlement on Mars: The Architecture of the Mars
Homestead
Project,
Economics of Energy on Mars,
Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) 2009
Crew Perspectives, and
The Emerging Inner Solar System Economy.
Joe earned a bachelors degree with honors in Electrical Engineering from
the
New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2002 and a master’s degree in
Nuclear
Science & Engineering from MIT in 2006 with the thesis
Empirical aspects of a Mini-Helicon Plasma Thruster Experiment (mHTX@
MIT).
He graduated the Harvard program
“Executive Education Intensive Course — Launching New Ventures” in
2009.
Watch
Joseph Palaia on ABC Action News in Tampa 5–11–2010 and New Space Center Florida, Joseph Palaia, Mars Society
Convention 2010 parts
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