 Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, M.D.
Chairman & Co-Founder, Rocket Racing LeagueŽ
Dr. Peter H. Diamandis is a pioneer and leader in the commercial space arena
having created many of the leading commercial space companies opening the
personal spaceflight industry.
Dr. Diamandis is the Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation
(www.xprize.org), which awarded the $10,000,000 Ansari X PRIZE
(www.xprize.org) for private spaceflight and is now implementing prizes in a variety of different arenas.
He is the Chairman & Co-Founder of the Rocket Racing League. Diamandis also serves as the CEO of
Zero Gravity Corporation (www.nogravity.com) a commercial space company developing private, FAAcertified
parabolic flight utilizing Boeing 727-200 aircraft. Diamandis is a co-founder of Space Adventures,
Inc. (www.spaceadventures.com), the company which brokered Dennis Tito and Mark Shuttleworth's
flight to the International Space Station.
In 1987, Diamandis co-Founded the International Space University (ISU) (www.isunet.edu) where he
served as the University's first managing director. Today he serves as a Trustee of the $30M ISU that is
based in Strasbourg, France. Prior to ISU, Diamandis served as Chairman of Students for the Exploration
and Development of Space (SEDS) an organization he founded at MIT in 1980. SEDS is the world's
largest student pro space organization.
Dr. Diamandis attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he received his
undergraduate degree in molecular genetics and graduate degree in aerospace engineering. After MIT he
attended Harvard Medical School where he received his M.D. in 2005 he was awarded a Doctorate from
the International Space University.
He is the winner of the Konstantine Tsiolkovsky Award, twice the winner of the Aviation & Space
Technology Laurel, and the 2003 World Technology Award for Space. In 8th grade, while living in New
York, Dr. Diamandis won first place in the Estes rocket design contest.
Diamandis' mission is to open the space frontier for humanity. His personal motto is: "The best way to
predict the future is to create it yourself!"
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