National Space Society

He received the Aviation Week 2008 Laureate for the most significant achievement worldwide in the space industry.

2009, the National Space Society awarded Musk the Von Braun Trophy given for leadership of the most significant achievement in space.

And in 2010, Elon was the youngest recipient of the Otto Executive of the Year Innovator Award for his work at Tesla, and most recently named the Time 100 for 2010.

I can tell you as a Tesla board member, I've watched Elon provide not only the vision for the company, but provide intensely focused execution of the company's business plan and recruitment of the best and brightest people.

Rod is out on a spacewalk this week, so you're stuck with me.

With me and the fabulous Rick Genet of Expanding Frontiers and the National Space Society.

Rick, thank you for joining in.

Hey!

It's, it's a wild case.

Uh, let's talk about it with Karlton Johnson, the CEO of the National Space Society.

It's great to have you back.

Hey, thanks everybody.

So our guest today is Dale Scran.

He's the Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the National Space Society.

And he's on the NSS Board of Directors.

Dale worked 17 years at Bell Labs when it was part of AT&T and then at Lucent Technologies.

And then he continued his career at several companies, including Ascend Communications, where he was VP of Enterprise Engineering, Sonos Networks, where he was director of engineering, and CMWare, where he was a founder and CEO and VP of engineering.

Dale has held or currently holds several leadership positions on the National Space Society committees.

His bio continues with an extensive list of blog posts and articles he's published in Anastra and other publications.

We could go on, but I invite you to check out his bio later because we'd rather talk to Dale.

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And of course, you can always find me at pilebooks.com or at astromagazine.com or at nss.org for the National Space Society, my employer.

Uh, finally, remember, you can always drop us a line at twistattwit.tv. You're w- We welcome your comments, suggestions, feedback, ideas, jokes, and insults for Tariq.

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