Jonathan W. Campbell

Jonathan W. Campbell, a Colonel in the United States Air Force Reserve, is presently assigned as the Individual Mission Augmentee to the CADRE Commander at Air University. In civilian life, Dr. Campbell is a scientist and advanced projects manager in the Advanced Projects Office of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. In that capacity he has worked for over 20 years in the space program a number of advanced research projects. He served as the project manager on Project ORION, which was a NASA study published in 1997 that explored the feasibility of using lasers to remove orbital debris. He has published more than fifty scientific papers on various subjects, including laser orbital debris removal and laser asteroid, meteoroid, and comet deflection. He has a doctorate in astrophysics and space science from the University of’ Alabama in Huntsville; masters degrees in theoretical physics from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, in engineering management from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and in experimental plasma physics from Auburn University; and a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from Auburn University. He is also a graduate of the Army’s Airborne School at Fort Benning, Georgia, the Air Command and Staff College and Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery. Alabama. [From About Author page in Using Lasers in Space, published in December 2000]