Professor Alexander Bolonkin
Alexander
Bolonkin, Ph.D. is a member of the Board of Directors of the
International Space Agency, Chairman of the Space Flights section, and
President of the International Association of Former Soviet Political
Prisoners and Victims of the Communist Regime.
Alexander has a doctorate in Aviation Engineering from
Leningrad Polytechnic University.
He specializes in the
fields of aviation, cosmonautics, mathematics, and computer science.
Alexander worked together with Sergei Korolev. He also worked
at the
Antonov aircraft construction bureau and the Glushko space rocket
bureau. He taught at the most prestigious science academies of the
Soviet Union. In 1972, he was arrested by the KGB for distributing the
works of Andrei Sakharov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He spent fifteen
years in exile, confined in concentration camps. During perestroika, he
was released from prison. In 1987 he moved abroad.
In the U.S.,
he has taught at universities and worked as a senior researcher at NASA
and at U.S. Air Force labs. He has authored more than 170 scientific
manuscripts and books and has patented 17 inventions, of which several
are now considered classified in the U.S.
In the field of cosmonautics, Alexander came up with the theories of a
cable space launcher, a
hypersonic tube launcher, a kinetic anti-gravitator, a multi-reflex
propulsion device with engine, space towers, an electrostatic space
sail, a ramjet electric space propulsion device, and the cable aviation
device.
Alexander authored
Non-Rocket Space Launch and Flight,
Memoirs of a Soviet Political Prisoner,
New Concepts, Ideas and Innovations in Aerospace, Technology and
Human Science,
Human Immortality and Electronic Civilization,
Universe, Human Immortality, and Future Human Evaluation, and
Life. Science. Future.: Biography notes, researches and
innovations,
and coedited
Macro-Projects: Environment and Technology,
His papers include
The Twenty First Century: The Advent of the Non-Biological
Civilization and Immortality,
Science, Soul, Heaven, and Supreme Mind,
Cheap Method for Shielding a City from Rocket and
Nuclear Warhead Impacts,
Femtotechnology: Nuclear AB-Material with Fantastic
Properties,
Converting of Any Matter to Nuclear Energy by-AB-Generator,
and
Aerial High Altitude Gas Pipeline.
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