John E. Brandenburg
Ph.D.
Senior Propulsion Scientist
Orbital Technologies Corporation
CREDENTIALS:
DR JOHN BRANDENBURG - Life
and Death on Mars: The New Mars Synthesis - John
Brandenburg was born in Rochester Minnesota and
grew up in Medford Oregon. He obtained his
bachelor's degree in physics at Southern Oregon
University, and his MS in Applied Science at
University of California at Davis, and also hie
PhD in plasma Physics at UC Davis extension at
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
studying controlled fusion using magnetic fields
to confine plasma. John .E. Brandenburg is a
Senior Propulsion Scientist at Orbital
Technologies Inc. after being a researcher at
Florida Space Institute having come there from
The Aerospace Corporation, where one of his
duties was as principle investigator of the MET
(Microwave Electro-Thermal) propulsion project.
He also performed an architecture study for a
Human Mars Mission using solar electric
propulsion. He also performed research on Fusion
Propulsion and Kaluza-Klein theory of Field
Unification for purposes of space propulsion.
Before coming to Aerospace corporation Dr.
Brandenburg was a researcher at Research Support
Instruments (RSI) where he specialized in making
controlled plasmas for uses ranging from Fusion
Energy research to the MET thruster. He also
worked as an independent consultant on Space
Missile Defense, Directed Energy Weapons, and
space rocket plume phenomenology, and also at
Mission Research Corporation and Sandia National
Laboratories on plasmas for controlled fusion
and similar topics. He has written 4 books :
Dead Mars Dying Earth on Global Warming and
Energy problems with Monica Rix Paxton, which
won the 2000 silver Ben Franklin award for best
environmental or science book. Two sci-fi novels
: "Asteroid 2012 Sepulveda" and its sequel
"Morningstar Pass the Collapse of the UFO Cover
Up" under the pen name "Victor Norgarde" and
most recently the Mars science book: Life and
Death on Mars: The New Mars Synthesis" which
describes a new concept of mars geochemical and
biological history. -
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