Ambassadors

CSF’s Suborbital Applications Researchers Group

- To build a strong community of researchers and educators that support REM applications on next-gen suborbital vehicles.

- To educate the suborbital flight provider community about the potential of the REM market.

- To encourage NASA and other agencies to fund programs for science, research, and education missions aboard commercial reusable suborbital vehicles.

Be an advocate for suborbital research. Be a SARG Ambassador Today!

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Commercial Spaceflight Federation

CSF SARG Website

SARG Ambassador Program

SARG Ambassador Website created at SwRI by Dr. Constantine Tsang

SARG MEMBERS

SARG AMBASSADOR PROGRAM

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The members of SARG encompass a wide range of scientific disciplines, from microgravity chemistry and space life sciences to mechanical engineering, atmospheric sciences, and education:

• Dr. Alan Stern, SARG Chair

Southwest Research Institute – Planetary Science
• Dr. Sean Casey

Universities Space Research Association - Astrophysics
• Dr. Steven Collicott

Purdue University – Microgravity Physics
• Dr. Joshua Colwell

University of Central Florida – Microgravity Physics
• Dr. Daniel Durda

Southwest Research Institute – Planetary Science
• Dr. Makenzie Lystrup

Ball Aerospace - Planetary Science
• Dr. Richard Miles

Princeton University – Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
• Dr. Anna-Lisa Paul

University of Florida – Life Sciences

• Dr. Mark Shelhamer

Johns Hopkins University – Space Life Sciences
• Dr. Stan Solomon

National Center for Atmospheric Research - Atmospheric Sciences

• Mr. Charlie Walker

Spaceflight Payload Specialist (Shuttle) - Spaceflight

Commercial Spaceflight Federation staff serve as the SARG Program Officers, and Cindy Conrad of the Southwest Research Institute serves as SARG Executive Secretariat.

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SARG AMBASSADORS TIMELINE

APRIL 2012: DEBUT OF SARG AMBASSADORS WEBSITE

MAY 2012: CALL FOR AMBASSADORS (Sign up below!)

JULY 2012: INITIATE AMBASSADOR PROGRAMS

SUMMER 2013: 1ST ANNUAL SARG AMBASSADOR AWARDS AT NSRC-2013

The SARG Ambassador Program will:

-Enroll SARG Ambassadors
-Provide Ambassadors with SARG news updates
-Provide Ambassadors with SARG presentation materials
-Connect Ambassadors to speaking opportunities
-Track Ambassador metrics
-Make Ambassador awards

SARG AMBASSADOR PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

GREATLY MULTIPLY THE ABILITY OF THE SARG TO MESSAGE FOR SUBORBITAL REM

IDENTIFY CANDIDATES FOR NEW SARG MEMBERS

As a coordination and advisory committee of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, the Suborbital Applications Researchers Group (SARG) is composed of experienced scientists, researchers, and educators dedicated to furthering the research and education potential of commercial suborbital launch vehicles. The goals of SARG are to increase awareness of commercial suborbital vehicles in the science, R&D, and education communities, work with policymakers to ensure that payloads can have easy access to these vehicles, and generate new ideas for uses of these vehicles for science, engineering, and education missions

More information about SARG's background, objectives, membership, and accomplishments can be found HERE. More information on the SARG Ambassadors program and how you can play a role can be found HERE.

SARG is now recruiting Ambassadors to help communicate the Research and Education Mission (REM) promise of next-gen suborbital spaceflight to colleagues, the public, and funding agencies. From time to time, SARG will provide Ambassadors who sign up on the interest form below with specific opportunities to communicate to groups above in your local area, and we may also ask Ambassadors to communicate in writing or phone calls with Congress or funding agencies, or even to write materials to university or professional society newsletters.

If so, just sign up below to get on our mailing list. Then each year at the annual NSRC (Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference) we'll thank SARG Ambassadors with a reception and awards ceremony.

We hope you will want to help-- if so, just sign up below to get started!