NASA Langley DEVELOP Scholar David Brundage, a Wise, Va. resident and University of Tennessee aerospace major, has been selected to participate in the 2010 Space Generation Congress to be held in the city of Prague of the Czech Republic, September 23-25 of this year.Endorsed by the United Nations Office on Space Affairs, the Space Generation Congress meets in conjunction with the International Astronautical Congress and the heads of space agencies from among spacefaring nations.
Rapidly advancing from his association with GIS and DEVELOP in Wise, Va., David spent his summer at the NASA Langley Research Center and visiting the NASA Wallops Island Flight Facility where he learned of the commercial space flight plans set to commence next year from the commercial Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS).
Among David's professional goals are to complete his undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering and advance to graduate school where he aspires to focus on advanced propulsion systems. He subsequently will seek to conduct doctoral research in hypersonic air breathing propulsion. "Concepts and designs such as fusion reactors, hypersonic air-breathing propulsion, and distant planetary travel inspire me," Brundage says.
David's interests are not only in aerospace but nuclear engineering and nuclear physics. He continues to explore academic avenues to merge his interests in aerospace and nuclear physics after reading the book, The Orion Project, about designs of an atomic spaceship.
The trek to Europe for the 2010 Space Generation Congress is being backed by the Southwestern Virginia Technology Council. He will be a part of the 20-member US delegation set to meet with space agency leaders from around the world.
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