On March 25, 2021, Dale Skran, NSS Senior Vice President and Senior Operating Officer, presented "NEW RIDES TO THE MOON: A review of current and upcoming vehicles that will carry humanity back to the Moon."
We stand on the cusp of a new age of lunar exploration and development. But how will we fly back to the Moon? Dale's tech-heavy talk surveyed for a general audience the rockets most likely to take a new generation to the Moon. Space geek-on!
Dale Skran worked 17 years with Bell Labs (AT&T, Lucent Technologies) and continued his career at several companies including Ascend Communications (VP of Enterprise Engineering), Sonus Networks (Director of Engineering), and CMWare (Founder, CEO, COO, and VP of Engineering). He was also a negotiator/ manager (Rapporteur) at the UN (International Telecommunication Union) where he led the development of international Internet standards for video conferencing and voice services (VoIP).
Dale holds the following NSS leadership positions:
• Senior Vice President/Senior Operating Officer
• Co-Chair of the Bylaws Committee
• Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee
• At-large Board Member
Some of the articles Dale has written for Ad Astra and other publications include:
• “New Rides to the Moon,” Winter 2018
• “Out of the Ashes: SpaceX Rockets to a Record Year,” Winter 2018
• “Battle of the Colossi: Round Two – SLS vs Falcon Heavy vs New Glenn,” Spring 2018
• “How 2018 Became the first year of Space,” Winter 2019• “A Message from the Incoming Chair [of the Executive Committee],” Spring 2019
• “Space-Based Astronomy is our Future,” Winter 2020
• “Why SpaceX Has Not Won the Collier Trophy?”, Winter 2020
• “Why We are Non-Partisan,” Winter 2020
• “Commentary on the Planetary Society’s ‘Principles for Human Spaceflight,” The Space Review, September 24, 2018 (with co-authors)
• “Humanity Can’t Afford to Keep Space Pristine,” Foreign Policy, October 30, 2019, co-authored with Greg Autry“
• “Space-based Astronomy is our future (op-ed),” space.com, March 14, 2020
• “Op-ed | H.R. 5666 will launch the U.S. in the wrong direction,” Space News, March 5, 2020 (with co-authors)
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