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Antonio Elias, Executive Vice President & General Manager
Advanced Programs Group
Dr. Elias currently serves as Executive Vice President and General Manager for Advanced Programs at Orbital. Earlier, he served as Orbital's Chief Technical Officer from 1996 to 1997 and as Corporate Senior Vice President from 1992 to 1996. In 1989, Dr. Elias was named as Orbital's first Vice President for Engineering. From 1987 to 1991, he led the technical team that designed and built the Pegasus air-launched booster, flying as launch vehicle operator on the carrier aircraft for the rocket's first and fourth flights. He also led the design teams of Orbital's APEX and SeaStar satellites and the X-34 hypersonic research vehicle.
Dr. Elias holds B.S., M.S., E.A.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Astronautical Society and the International Academy of Astronautics. |
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Frank Culbertson, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Manager
Advanced Programs Group
Mr. Culbertson is responsible for Orbital’s human spaceflight programs, including commercial transportation services to the International Space Station (ISS) and the Orion Launch Abort System.
Prior to joining Orbital, Mr. Culbertson was a Senior Vice President at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), initially as Program Manager of the Safety, Reliability and Quality Assurance contract at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, before progressing to business unit general management and, most recently, Director of SAIC’s Global Climate Change Programs. Before joining SAIC, Mr. Culbertson had a distinguished career as both an astronaut for NASA and as a Naval Aviator.
Mr. Culbertson was originally selected as a NASA astronaut candidate in 1984. For the next 18 years, he served in a variety of critical spaceflight and management roles for NASA’s Space Shuttle and Space Station programs, including three launches aboard the Space Shuttle and command of the International Space Station. These flights included piloting STS-38 Atlantis in 1990, commanding STS-51 Discovery in 1993, and launching on STS-105 Endeavour to the ISS in 2001, plus returning aboard STS-108 Discovery after four months on the ISS. During Expedition 3 to the ISS, which began in August 2001 and returned to Earth in December 2001, Mr. Culbertson and his two Russian crewmates lived and worked in space for 129 days. In total, he has logged over 144 days in space and over five hours of extra-vehicular activity (space walk) experience.
Mr. Culbertson is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD. His career in the U.S. Navy included several deployments aboard aircraft carriers and tours as an instructor pilot and automatic carrier landing system test pilot. He has logged almost 7,000 hours flying time in 50 different types of aircraft and has made more than 350 carrier landings. He retired from active duty as a U.S. Navy Captain in 1997. |
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Frank DeMauro, Vice President and COTS/CRS Program Director
Advanced Programs Group
Mr. DeMauro is Vice President and Program Director of Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) and Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) for the Advanced Programs Group at Orbital Sciences Corporation. Orbital is commercially developing a new space transportation system in a three-year cooperative effort with NASA’s Johnson Space Center to provide cargo resupply to the International Space Station. The COTS program will involve full-scale development and flight demonstration of a commercial cargo delivery system and will complement Russian, European, and Japanese ISS cargo vehicles. Orbital’s COTS solution includes both the Taurus II medium-class launch vehicle and the Cygnus cargo delivery spacecraft. The COTS demonstration will be followed by regular resupply missions under the CRS contract.
Previously, Mr. DeMauro held the position was Vice President of Engineering in Orbital’s Technical Operations Group. He has also held multiple program management positions in Orbital’s commercial GEO satellite group in addition positions in business development and Systems Engineering.
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