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Dr. Peter H. Diamandis is a successful entrepreneur and pioneer in the commercial space arena. Diamandis co-founded ZERO-G as a means to permit the public to experience the excitement of space on a first-hand basis. Dr. Diamandis is the Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, a non-profit organization promoting the formation of a space-tourism industry through a $10M prize. Diamandis was a co-founder of Space Adventures, Ltd. a leading space travel and tourism company, and a co-Founder and chairman of Starport.com, a leading Internet site for Space Exploration, acquired by SPACE.com in 1990. In 1987, Peter co-founded the International Space University (ISU) where he served as the University's first managing director. Today he is a trustee of the $30M university located on its own campus in Strasbourg, France. While a student at MIT, Peter founded and served as chairman of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS), the world's largest student space organization. Peter Diamandis received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in aerospace engineering from the MIT and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He has conducted research in a number of fields, including molecular genetics, space medicine, and launch vehicle design. He has received a number of awards, including MIT's Kresge Award, the 1986 Space Industrialization Fellowship Award, the 1988 Aviation Week and Space Technology Laurel, the 1993 Space Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award, and the Russian 1995 K. E. Tsiolkovsky Award. | 