Robert A. Goehlich was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1975. He studied
Aerospace Engineering at the Technical University Berlin from 1996 to
2000 and received his Ph.D. in 2003. He worked at the Israel Institute
of Technology (Haifa, Israel), at the University of Washington (Seattle,
USA), at the National Aerospace Laboratory (Tokyo, Japan) and at
EADS Space (Kourou Spaceport, French Guiana). Since 2003 he has
lectured at Keio University (Yokohama, Japan) and working with the
Future Space Transportation System Team at Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency JAXA (Tokyo, Japan). He has created and lectured
world's first "Space Tourism" and "Economics of Space" courses. At
JAXA his investigations are focused on cost optimization for current
and future space transportation systems and improvement of
Aerospace organizations effectiveness.
