Timothy Walton and Adam Lemon of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, discuss their new study, “Leveling the Plying Field: Reintroducing U.S. Theater-Range Missiles in a Post-INF World,” with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Washington, DC.
Natalia Arno, president and founder of the Free Russia Foundation, discusses recent nation-wide demonstrations against Russian President Vladimir Putin, the arrest of thousands of protesters including opposition leader Alexei Navalny, prospects for political change in Russia and who could succeed Putin with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center in Washington, DC. Arno was exiled from Russia in 2012.
Tom Karako, PhD, missile defense expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, discusses Iran’s use of drones as weapons and how to counter them with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Joseph Vick, the manager of museum education at the US Space & Rocket Center, discusses the Mobile Quarantine Facility used by Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad, Al Bean and Dick Gordon after their mission to the Moon with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Huntsville, Ala. The three spent two weeks in the modified Airstream trailer to ensure that potential diseases from the lunar surface didn’t contaminate planet Earth. Apollo missions 11, 12 and 14 astronauts that made it to the Moon used the mobile facilities immediately after landing — entering the trailer after splashdown aboard USS Hornet through return to the United States — until scientists concluded that the precaution was unnecessary.
Brian Chappel, the sector vice president and general manager for autonomous systems at Northrop Grumman Aeronautics, discusses the market and the outlook for the new Firebird optionally manned aircraft the company developed for commercial and military applications with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2019 Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.
Rear Adm. James Robb, USN Ret., the president of the National Training and Simulation Association — a part of the National Defense Industrial Association — discusses key training and simulation messages for Congress at the organization’s annual expo on Capitol Hill, resolving the national shortage of military and civilian pilots, and new technology for education with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Joseph Vick, the manager of museum education at the US Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., discusses the Project Mercury with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
1st Lt. Tara Sweeney, USAF (Ret.), Vice President at U.S. Space & Rocket Center, celebrates the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11th on July 20th, 1969, the first mission to land humans on the moon. She discusses Space Camp’s mission, their forty to fifty-thousand student – child and adult – attendance, the incredible things they learn and achieve and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Joseph Vick, the manager of museum education at the US Space & Rocket Center, discusses the importance of Germany’s V-2 missile in advancing American rocketry with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Huntsville, Ala.
Ed Stewart II, the director of exhibits and curation at the US Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., discusses the legacy of the Apollo program and the museum’s unique collection with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.