Robert Pearlman

Robert Zane Pearlman (born January 14, 1976) is an American space historian and the founder and editor of collectSPACE, a website devoted to news and information concerning space exploration and space-related artifacts and memorabilia, especially in popular culture. He is also a contributing writer to Space.com.

Robert Zane Pearlman
Robert Pearlman (on right)
Born (1976-01-14) January 14, 1976
Livingston, New Jersey
OccupationAmerican space historian
NationalityAmerican

Biography

Pearlman was born in Livingston, New Jersey but considers West Orange, New Jersey his hometown. He attended the University of Maryland, College Park from 1994 to 1997 studying astronomy, physics and English.[1]

In 1996, he developed the website promoting Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin's first novel.[2] From 1997 to 2003, Pearlman served as first the director of communications and later marketing director for Space Adventures, the first company to book privately financed spaceflight participants on flights to the International Space Station.[3] He was communities producer for Space.com from 2000 to 2001. From 1998 to 2003, he was the on-air host for National Space Day webcasts from the National Air and Space Museum. In 1999, he founded collectSPACE, an online community and resource for space history enthusiasts.[4]

Pearlman is a member of the US Space Walk of Fame Foundation Board of Directors, serves on the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society and on the nominating induction committee for the US Astronaut Hall of Fame.[5] He is a director emeritus of the National Space Society, and former national chair of the Students for the Exploration and Development and Space.[6]. Pearlman is also a member of the Leadership Board of For All Moonkind, Inc..

In 2001, his work on collectSPACE earned Pearlman the Collector of the Year Award from the Universal Autograph Collectors Club.[7] In 2009, he was inducted into the United States Space Camp Hall of Fame, in part for his work on collectSPACE.[8] Pearlman lives in the Nassau Bay area of Houston, Texas.

gollark: I made an automatic rap generation programIt works by appending an unrelated word which rhymes with the end of the previous line amTo every second lineThis totally counts as rap mineVery valid rap indeedI win esolangs now speed
gollark: Nobody can diss my rhymesBecause they are made from fresh limesThis is the next lineApparently that rhymes with pine
gollark: My rhymes are strangeBut I'm going to rhyme with orængeI'm using a rhyming dictionaryOnline, not from the libraryTechnically it's an API for word association queriesThere exists a thing known as a "geometric series"
gollark: I am going to rip you apartSimilarly to shredded cheeseBy deploying a railgunWhich shoots bees
gollark: I made time parsing workthough it has a weird quirkbecause it turns out that general parsing of times is quite a hard problem, so I just had it parse one hardcoded date format, parse time *deltas* using a nice regex, and use some random library for the rest.

See also

Footnotes
  1. "Q&A Spotlight: Robert Zane Pearlman", Explorer: Newsletter of the American Astronautical Society History Committee, Issue 10, March 2010, p. 16. Accessed February 24, 2011. "Hometown: West Orange, New Jersey"
  2. "Google Groups". Groups.google.com. Retrieved 2016-02-24.
  3. Chris Dubbs; Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom (2011). Realizing Tomorrow: The Path to Private Spaceflight. Internet Archive. U of Nebraska Press. p. 125. Retrieved 2016-02-24.
  4. Fenlon, Wesley (2014-01-15). "Artifacts of Apollo: Collecting Memorabilia from the Space Race and Beyond". Tested. Retrieved 2016-02-24.
  5. "When Biospheres Collide: a history oF nasa's planetary protection programs : News & Views" (PDF). Historynasa.gov. Retrieved 2016-02-24.
  6. "Past SEDS-USA Boards of Directors - SEDS Wiki". Wiki.seds.org. 2013-11-17. Retrieved 2016-02-24.
  7. "UACC". UACC. Retrieved 2016-02-24.
  8. "Hall Of Fame". Spacecamp.com. 2015-04-28. Retrieved 2016-02-24.

References

Bibliography
  • Dubbs, Chris; Realizing Tomorrow: The Path to Private Spaceflight; Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spacecraft; U of Nebraska Press, 2011; ISBN 0803216106
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