Carol Rosin

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Dr. Carol Rosin is an award-winning educator, author, leading aerospace executive and space and missile defense consultant. She is a former spokesperson for Wernher von Braun and has consulted to a number of companies, organizations, government departments and the intelligence community. She is the current President of the Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS) which she co-founded with Mr. Alfred Webre. Dr. Rosin has received the support of various prominent individuals such as U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich, a former Presidential Candidate, and Hon. Paul Hellyer, a former Canadian Minister of National Defence.

Career at Fairchild Industries

Dr. Rosin was the first woman to hold the position of Corporate Manager at Fairchild Industries from 1974 through 1977, where she met the late Dr. Wernher Von Braun. When they first met in early 1974, Von Braun was dying of cancer. Von Braun's spent the last years of his life, his dying years, educating and mentoring Dr. Rosin about why space-based weapons are dangerous, destabilizing, too costly, unnecessary, unworkable and about the alternatives that are available. Wernher Von Braun asked Dr. Rosin to be his spokesperson and to appear on occasions when he was too ill to speak. He asked her to take on the challenge of promoting the ban of space weapons by educating decision makers and the grassroots about transforming the military industrial complex into a peaceful space exploration industry.

Career as a space weapons consultant

Dr. Rosin has been a consultant to corporations and organizations, including TRW, Disney, GE, IBM and the National Space Institute on space and defense. She has testified before the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Senate, the President's Commission on Space and has met with people in over 100 countries about the feasibility of banning space-based weapons.

Accomplishments & awards

Dr. Rosin is the recipient of the United Societies in Space Humanitarian Award for 30 years of dedication, a Science Teachers Gold Medal Award, an Aviation Writers Award and an American Society of Engineering Educators Award for organizing the motivation program "It's Your Turn" for youth, women and minorities.

She is the founder and former director of the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space (ISCOS) an NGO in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Counsel (UN-ECOSOC).

She co-founded the Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS) in 2001 and is the current President. ICIS board members include former astronauts Edgar Mitchell & Dr. Brian O'Leary, as well as Arthur C. Clarke, former ambassador James George, General Council Daniel Sheehan and a founder of International Earth Day (March 21st), John McConnell.

External links

• The Institute for Cooperation in Space
• Article by Dr. Rosin & Mr. Webre for the International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation
• June 2004 Interview with Dr. Carol Rosin
• Former Presidential Candidate, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, wants a ban of space weapons
• Photo of Dr. Carol Rosin at Washington's National Press Club

She recently moved to Ecuador to further her career and to work against the use of space weapons to eradicate OPCs or Off Planet Cultures.