Yuri Karash

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birth_date = 16 June 1963
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citizenship = Russian
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Yuri Karash is a U.S.-trained Russian space policy expert and a journalist.

Academic background

In 1990, Yuri Karash was one of the finalists in the Soviet Journalist-in-Space project and a candidate for space flight. In 1992, while already having a Russian Candidate of Sciences degree, he graduated from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. with Masters of International Public Policy degree. The same year he was accepted for Ph.D. studies at the School of International Service in the American University in Washington, D.C. During his studies at SIS he also took classes at the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University. He got his Ph.D. in International Relations with concentration in Space Policy issues in 1997. His dissertation was published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics under the title "The Superpower Odyssey: A Russian Perspective on Space Cooperation". [cite web | url = http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=362&id=598 | title = The Superpower Odyssey: A Russian Perspective on Space Cooperation | publisher = American Institute of Aeronautis and Astronautics | author = Yuri Karash | date = 1999 ] In 2000, Dr. Karash became a corresponding member of the Tsiolkovsky Russian Academy of Cosmonautics.

Flight experience

In 1985-1989, Yuri Karash was an aerobatic pilot at the Chkalov Central Flight Club in Moscow. In 1994-1995, he took flight training at the Bay Bridge Aviation flight school in Maryland and became the first Russian citizen to be rated by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration as a Commercial Pilot with Single Engine, Multiengine and Instrument Flight Rules ratings.

pace policy and journalistic experience

Since 2000, Karash has been intensively involved in the development of the Russian space policy through his numerous articles and presentations in the Russian mass media. He proposed a concept of the hybrid ‘fly by – orbital’ manned/automatic mission to Mars (Mars Piloted Orbital Station) as the most realizable in the current Russian economic conditions.

Karash is an accomplished journalist and TV/radio commentator with a considerable experience working for the Russian and foreign mass media. He worked as a special correspondent for The Washington Times newspaper and Space.com internet paper. His articles covering space and political developments were published by the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, San Francisco Chronicle, Florida Today and Space News newspapers. He currently writes for Nezavisimaya Gazeta and Izvestia Russian newspapers on space policy issues, while also consulting Russkaya Sluzhba Novostey (Russian News Service), Mayak (The Beacon) radio stations, BBC, CBC and Russia Today TV/radio companies on space issues. His current full-time position is a Business Development Manager and Aerospace Policy specialist at the Raytheon office in Moscow, Russia.

References

ee Also

* [http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/candidates/english/karash_yuri.htm Biographies of Astronaut and Cosmonaut Candidates]
* [http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/mwade/astros/karash.htm Astronautics Encyclopedia reference]