George T. Whitesides Biography

George T. Whitesides (George Thomas Whitesides) is CEO of Virgin Galactic, a firm developing commercial space vehicles at the Mojave Air and Space Port.

Whitesides was previously Chief of Staff of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a position to which he was named after serving on the NASA transition team for the incoming Obama administration.

From 2004 to 2008, he served as the Executive Director of the National Space Society. He is the co-creator of Yuri’s Night.

Whitesides has served as Senior Advisor to Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson‘s space tourism company.

He was the Chairman of the Reusable Launch Vehicle Working Group of COMSTAC, the advisory committee for the FAA’s Commercial Space Transportation Division. Whitesides was a board member of Astronomers Without Borders and the Space Generation Foundation.

He has served as a coach for Zero Gravity Corporation’s parabolic flight service.

George T. Whitesides Education

Whitesides attended Newton North High School. He then attended Princeton University, graduating from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Whitesides served for four years on Princeton’s Board of Trustees upon graduation. He also has an MPhil in Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing from King’s College, Cambridge. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Tunisia.

George T. Whitesides Age

George Whitesides likes to keep his personal life private hence it is not known which month or date he was born or when he celebrates his birthday.

George T. Whitesides Family

Whitesides is the son of George M. Whitesides, who is a professor of chemistry at Harvard University. His brother, Ben, is lead singer of of The Joggers, a Portland, Oregon-based band.

George T. Whitesides Wife

Whitesides is married to Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides, and they plan to be the first couple to honeymoon in space.

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