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Via Satellite: How do you reach students at a younger age?Chilton: Someone in the education system would have control over the curriculum. We are saying one course for the senior year in high school as a way of showing how you can apply the math you have learned. It would not be hard that to do. I am offering this as an idea based on my experience. I had no clue about what engineering was until I went to college. If you wait until that late in a young person’s career, they may at that stage want to do something else, which is fine, but it is a lost opportunity when you have that desperate need for scientists and engineers in your society.
Via Satellite: What would you hope will be your major achievement in space in the next 10 years?Chilton: Space situational awareness. We have really just started talking about our capabilities in this area over the last couple of years. I have tried to champion that, both in my previous job and now this job. I hope 10 years from now we will look back and say we have vastly improved that capability with additional sharing of information and that countries are cooperating on that. I think that will add to security and stability in that domain for many years to come. It will be very satisfying if we are able to make this happen.
Via Satellite: What is your vision of space beyond the next 10 years?Chilton: I think we will see some major breakthroughs during this time. It is hard to imagine communication satellites getting better, but they will. Today, they are still point-to-point satellite communications, but we will see the Internet move to space and bandwidth improvement as a result. We will see IP-based communications satellites, which will bring information as we start to figure out better ways of taking that information and moving that to and from space from terrestrial databases and sharing the information. I think that is going to unleash even more the power of information. The Information Age will continue to advance still further and more and more people will have access to this information and that will be beneficial to the whole world. I think we will see advances in these areas.
On the military side, we will benefit from that as well. Sharing communications will be improved dramatically as a result of that. ■
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