Mark Albrecht has been a leading
figure in the American space program for over twenty years.
He has been the principal advisor on space to
President George H.W. Bush as Executive Secretary of the National Space
Council.
He has been a senior aerospace executive as President
of Lockheed Martin’s International Launch Services company.
He has served on numerous panels and boards of
advisors to the United States Air Force and NASA.
He has served as a member of several private
boards of directors and currently is the Chairman of the Board of USSpace,
LLC a company offering innovative approaches to meet Department of Defense
requirements through privately financed acquisition of rapid response
on-orbit capabilities.
Mark has written and spoken extensively on
space matters and is completing a book on the end of the cold war and the
US
and Russian space programs entitled,
“Falling Back to Earth:
A First Hand Account of the Great Space Race
and the End of the Cold War”.
He is a graduate of UCLA with Phi
Beta Kappa honors and received a PhD from the Rand Graduate Institute of
Public Policy, the Rand Corporation.