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Dick is a Systems Engineer with over 46 years of experience in the aerospace industry, including launch vehicle (beginning with the Atlas program) and component structural/thermal analyses and test, satellite design, analysis, test and manufacturing, and Space Shuttle System/Element Integration and Requirements/Verification. He has been recognized for major process improvements, and played key roles in both Space Shuttle accident investigations. With wife Anita Gale, he has conducted Space Settlement Design Competitions for high school students for over 20 years, now involving teams on six continents; Dick arranges facilities and services to keep the events running, and advises student participants on management practices. He is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Space Colonization Technical Committee; he and Anita co-author papers on space settlement requirements and technologies, and co-chair sessions on Space Colonization at technical conferences. Dick and Anita live in Nassau Bay, Texas, near Johnson Space Center in Houston. Dick advises 4Frontiers on space settlement requirements and risk assessment. | 