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Chris Welch
Dr Chris Welch is Principal Lecturer in Astronautics and Space Systems at
Kingston University
in London where he leads the
Astronautics and Space Systems group
. His research interests include non-chemical spacecraft propulsion such as ion engines and solar sails. Dr Welch is a former Chair of the
UK's Space Education Council
and of the
International Astronautical Federation Space Education and Outreach Committee
and a faculty member of the
International Space University
. He also has served as a specialist advisor to two enquiries into UK space policy.
Dr Welch is a frequent commentator on space and astronautics and has made more than several hundred television and radio broadcasts. Dr Welch's only other claims to fame are that he made it the final twenty candidates to fly to the Mir space station on the UK-USSR Juno mission in 1989 and has written what he believes to be the first ever paper on extraterrestrial garden design.
Chris was involved in the
Space Camp
event at
the Dana Centre
in July 2007