Christopher Altman

Channel Special and in the Guinness Book of World Records. As Director of the Board and Chief Science Officer for the world's first commercial astronaut corps, then as Director with the successor to the NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program, his research spans the fields of quantum technology and next-generation spaceflight. His next-generation science and technology initiatives include research, teaching and fellowships at NASA Ames Research Center, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, with Nobel laureate Anton Zeilinger's pioneering quantum foundations group at the International Academy Traunkirchen, as Senior Research Scientist at a joint NASA/ESA/CSA astronaut training facility on the slopes of Mauna Kea in Hawai`i, as Chairman for the UNISCA First Committee on Disarmament and International Security — selected as annual recipient of the RSA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Policy — and as part of the US Government's fast-track QulST program in the global race for quantum supremacy. His inaugural keynote address with the commercial astronaut corps was broadcast live to 108 sister cities around the world. NASA allocated funding to the corps for its first manned spaceflights the following spring.