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
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
