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You are here: Home / Speakers / Robinson Speakers / Ron Garan : Astronaut and Social Entrepreneur

Ron Garan : Astronaut and Social Entrepreneur

August 22, 2011 By James Robinson

Former NASA Astronaut, Fighter Pilot, Aquanaut and Social Entrepreneur


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Ron Garan Topics:

  • The Orbital Perspective

Ron Garan Biography:
Ron is a highly decorated Fighter Pilot and Test Pilot, Explorer, Entrepreneur and Humanitarian who believes that appropriately designed and targeted social enterprise can solve many of the problems facing our world.

Ron is a retired NASA astronaut who has traveled 71,075,867 miles in 2,842 orbits of our planet during more than 178 days in space and 27 hours and 3 minutes of EVA during four spacewalks.

Time in Space: 178 days, 23 hours, 54 minutes
Space Missions: STS-124, Soyuz TMA-21, Expedition 27/28
Spacewalks: 4 totaling: 27 hours, 3 minutes
Undersea Missions: NEEMO-9
Time on Bottom of the Ocean: 18 days, 3 hours, 14 minutes

He flew on both the US Space Shuttle and the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Ron is also an aquanaut and participated in the joint NASA-NOAA, NEEMO-9 mission, an exploration research mission held in Aquarius, the world’s only undersea research laboratory. During this mission he and the crew spent 18 continuous days living and working on the ocean floor.

Ron’s last NASA assignment was in NASA’s Open Innovation Initiative, which seeks to increase openness, transparency, collaboration, and innovation within government. In this capacity, Ron has been involved in many global mass collaboration and citizen science programs.

Prior to retiring from the US government, Ron was on assignment with the US Agency for International Development (USAID). At USAID he led an effort called Unity Node to develop a universal, open source, collaborative platform to enable humanitarian organizations around the world to work together toward their common goals and assisted USAID to establish an Applied Research for Development Program.

Ron has a very large social media following (~3.5 million) and is included on Google Plus’ “Top 25 Followed” and Kred’s “Top 1% Influencer” lists. Ron has been effectively using these platforms to tell the success story of the US and International Space Programs and started an initiative called Fragile Oasis to use the “Orbital Perspective” to inspire people to improve life on Earth.

Outside his work with the US government, Ron is also a serial entrepreneur and has founded multiple business enterprises and social-impact focused startups including Manna Energy Ltd which was created to leverage the $120B/year Carbon Market to finance humanitarian projects in developing countries. Manna Energy Ltd. is the first organization in the world to successfully register a United Nations Clean Development Mechanism carbon credit program for water treatment. Manna also developed, under contract with a partner organization the largest water treatment intervention conducted by a private organization – a four million person program operating in Kenya, completely funded by carbon credits.

Ron represented Manna Energy Ltd as one of ten global innovators in the field of water purification during the 2009 Launch-Water forum (sponsored by NASA, US State Dept., USAID, and Nike) and is now a member of the Launch Council. Ron has been selected as the technical and scientific advisor to the Social Business movement and its founder Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus.

Ron is the author of the highly acclaimed book The Orbital Perspective.

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Filed Under: Robinson Speakers, Uncategorized Tagged With: aquanaut, Astronaut, highly decorated fighter pilot, humanitarian, muhammad yunus, philanthropist, ron garan, social enterpreneur, social enterprise, test pilot, the orbital perspective

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