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Professional Speaker, Colonel
Rick Searfoss has won the coveted International Professional Speaker
Of The Year Award by the American Speakers Bureau Corporation in Orlando,
Florida. Rick Searfoss was chosen from thousands of professional speakers,
motivational speakers, keynote speakers and inspirational speakers.
Colonel Rick Searfoss, has over twenty-five years experience as a leader
in some of the most demanding team endeavors possible - human space
flight, test flying, and tactical military aviation.
Rick has unsurpassed credibility and experience coupled with "out-of-this-world"
speaking skills! Since leaving NASA, Rick has become involved in a series
of dazzling entrepreneurial ventures with Burt Rutan as the Chief Judge
for the highly successful and innovative Ansari X Prize competition
for a 10 million dollar prize to the first private team to develop and
fly a reusable human-carrying spacecraft.
Rick continues to stay right in the middle in some of today's most innovative
leading-edge projects: Vice President of the Zero Gravity Corporation,
XCOR Aerospace experimental rocket plane test pilot, and as a flight
test, leader and spokesperson for numerous space entrepreneurial ventures.
Plus he was invited for a guest appearance on Donald Trump's hit show,
The Apprentice.
Each year American Speakers Bureau picks just one professional speaker
who has demonstrated the true spirit of leadership and teamwork in our
industry.
Rick Searfoss joins a distinguished group of professional speakers who
have won this award including: Dr. Nate Booth, (three times) Dr. Johnny
Miller, (twice) Mr. Pat Williams, founder of the Orlando Magic Basketball
Team, and Astronaut, Dr. Story Musgrave.
Rick is the sixth professional speaker to win this prestigious ward
in eleven years. The founder and president of American Speakers Bureau,
Mr. Frank Candy said: "Rick Searfoss has demonstrated sophistication,
style and professionalism above and beyond all the rest. Rick is a class
act with a great vision for the future and outstanding wisdom for every
level of business people. Rick uses out-of-this-world stories about
the right stuff and outstanding delivery skills that move the audience
to believe they can achieve anything. Rick is a true American hero and
we are honored to give him this great award."
SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE:
Searfoss served as
STS-58 pilot on the seven-person life science research mission aboard
the Space Shuttle Columbia, launching from the Kennedy Space Center
on October 18, 1993, and landing at Edwards Air Force Base on November
1, 1993. The crew performed neurovestibular, cardiovascular, cardiopulmonary,
metabolic, and musculoskeletal medical experiments on themselves and
48 rats, expanding our knowledge of human and animal physiology both
on earth and in space flight. In addition, the crew performed 16 engineering
tests aboard the Orbiter Columbia and 20 Extended Duration Orbiter Medical
Project experiments. The mission was accomplished in 225 orbits of the
Earth. Launching March 22, 1996, Searfoss flew his second mission as
pilot of STS-76 aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis. During this 9-day
mission the STS-76 crew performed the third docking of an American spacecraft
with the Russian space station Mir. In support of a joint U.S./Russian
program, the crew transported to Mir nearly two tons of water, food,
supplies, and scientific equipment, as well as U.S. Astronaut Shannon
Lucid to begin her six-month stay in space. STS-76 included the first
ever spacewalk on a combined Space Shuttle-Space Station complex. The
flight crew also conducted scientific investigations, including European
Space Agency sponsored biology experiments, the Kidsat earth observations
project, and several engineering flight tests. Completed in 145 orbits,
STS-76 landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on March 31, 1996.Searfoss
commanded a seven person crew on the STS-90 Neurolab mission which launched
on April 17, 1998. During the 16-day Spacelab flight the crew served
as both experiment subjects and operators for 26 individual life science
experiments focusing on the effects of microgravity on the brain and
nervous system. STS-90 was the last and most complex of the twenty-five
Spacelab missions NASA has flown. Neurolab's scientific results will
have broad applicability both in preparing for future long duration
human space missions and in clinical applications on Earth. Completed
in 256 orbits, STS-90 landed at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on May
3, 1998.....PILOT OF STS-58 AND 76, COMMANDER ON 90, and had a role
on the TV Show Donald Trump - The Apprentice.
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