- Robert D. Richards
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footnotes =Robert D. Richards is the founder and CEO of
Odyssey Moon Limited, anIsle of Man based commercial lunar enterprise and the first official contender in the $30MGoogle Lunar X PRIZE competition. He is also the Director of the Space Division atOptech Incorporated , a company developing laser radar (lidar ) systems for space exploration, observation and operations. Robert Richards founded theInternational Space University (ISU) together withTodd B. Hawley andPeter Diamandis and he served as the university's first Associate Administrator for Strategic Planning and chaired the board's administrative and strategic planning committees during ISU's first phase of development. In2005 Robert Richards received a Doctorate of Space Achievement (honoris causa) from the International Space University for “distinguished accomplishments in support of humanity’s exploration and use of space.”Robert Richards also founded the
Space Generation Foundation andSEDS together withTodd B. Hawley andPeter Diamandis . Robert Richards remains an active supporter of these organisations.External links
* [http://www.robertdrichards.com/ Robert D. Richards' personal website]
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