Mitchell Burnside Clapp

Mitchell Burnside Clapp is an American aerospace engineer, former test pilot, and musician. He received Bachelor of Science degrees in Physics, Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Russian, as well as a Master of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]

Mitchell Burnside Clapp
NationalityAmerican
EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology
OccupationEngineer
Spouse(s)TJ Burnside Clapp
Engineering career
Employer(s)Pioneer Rocketplane, Embassy Aerospace, DARPA, USAF Test Pilot School, Millennium Space Systems
Significant advanceAerial propellant transfer technology for spaceplanes

Career

In the late 1980s and 1990s, Burnside Clapp attended the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and worked on the YA-7F and DC-X projects.[2]

Together with Robert Zubrin and Chuck Lauer, Burnside Clapp founded Pioneer Rocketplane in 1996.[3] He and Zubrin authored a piece in the MIT Technology Review of January/February 1998 calling for more air-launched rockets.[4]

From 2011 to 2015, Burnside Clapp served as a program manager at DARPA.[1]

Personal life

He is married to fellow filker TJ Burnside Clapp, formerly of the musical group Technical Difficulties. They have three children.[2] He has won two Pegasus Awards for his music.[2]

gollark: Hmm, apparently "elements in grown defect list" is "bad blocks" and this is actually quite bad, fun.
gollark: It has 68513 hours of power on time, 1986 power on/off cycles out of a rated 10000, and 4 "elements in grown defect list".
gollark: Ah, according to the data I got off it, my drive was manufactured in 2012. Which is something like threeish years after the server came into existence, as far as I know.
gollark: Also, there was some admittedly small-scale testing by some computer review company and SSDs could mostly go significantly beyond their endurance ratings and manage hundreds of terabytes written. But also did tend to fail suddenly and inexplicably instead of having a graceful failure.
gollark: Store the hashes of things, expect more computing power later.

References
  1. http://www.terrapinn.com/exhibition/connected-africa/speaker-mitchellburnside-CLAPP.stm
  2. http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/people/mitchell-burnside-clapp.html
  3. https://www.airspacemag.com/space/the-o-prize-22066370/?page=3
  4. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/400153/aviations-next-great-leap/
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