TED Talk: Rocket Scientist: Making Space Pay and Having Fun Doing Itĭr. He graduated with honors from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and currently lives in Midland, Texas. In 2016 the National Space Society awarded him the Space Pioneer Award for Entrepreneurial Business. Greason was cited by Time magazine in 2001 as one of the “Inventors of the Year” for his team’s work on the EZ-Rocket.

He has remained active in national space transportation policy and has given several widely circulated speeches on the subject. Human Space Flight Plans Committee examined ongoing and planned NASA activities and present options for a safe, innovative, affordable, and sustainable human space flight program after the retirement of the space shuttle. Chaired by Normal Augustine, the Review of U.S.

In 2009 he was named by the White House to a panel of independent experts that examined alternatives for advancing the United States’ human space exploration agenda. He also recently took over as Chairman of the Board at the Tau Zero foundation, a non-profit group working towards practical interstellar transportation technologies. He was one of the architects of the regulatory policy embodied in the 2004 Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act following which he co-founded the trade association for the commercial space industry, now the Commercial Spaceflight Federation. He has been a member of the COMSTAC RLV working group since 2000 and presently serves on the full COMSTAC, and he was integral in the first spaceport license at an airport, in Mojave, California, and the first spaceport license at a scheduled air service airport, in Midland, Texas. Jeff is a recognized expert in reusable launch vehicle (RLV) regulations. He has also worked on a low-cost liquid propellant piston pump, and two manned reusable rocket aircraft – the EZ-Rocket and the X-Racer, which broke all previous barriers for low cost and rapid reflight of rocket vehicles with 66 successful flights between them. As president and co-founder of XCOR, he led the engineering team that developed over 14 different long-life, highly-reusable liquid-fueled rocket engines. Jeff Greason has over 25 years’ experience managing innovative technical project teams at XCOR Aerospace, Rotary Rocket and Intel Corporation, and now as CEO of Agile Aero.

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