I don’t see any details, but apparently he died late last week. I hadn’t seen him in a couple decades, but I know that he’d been ill for quite some time. I imagine many younger people in the space movement haven’t heard of him, but he was one of the luminaries back in the seventies, creating the potential economic driver for O’Neill colonies. Anyway, John Mankins seems to have taken up the baton from him for space solar power.
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Thanks for that. BTW, you’re link didn’t lead to info on him. Glaser and O’Neill really inspired alot of people towards the possibilities of space back in the 70’s. I think some of those forsightful ideas will be coming to fruition in the near future.
Bob Clark
Yes, I saw him several times back in the ’70’s-’80s. He deserves to be remembered. One of those unassuming men of that era who did great things, and long before he came up with space solar power. E.g., he was a tank commander in the Free Czech Army of WWII.