About the Author

photo by Polina Khavkina
Ian Schleifer is a computer programmer at the Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Laboratory. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Ithaca College in 2002. He intends finally to pursue a higher degree in the near future – most likely a Master of Science in Computer & Electrical Engineering.
Ian’s hobbies include LARPing, singing, climbing, acting, martial arts, abstract mathematics, theoretical government, physics, reading/watching science fiction, and musical theater. He is also very interested in artificial intelligence, spacecraft propulsion, space exploration, spelunking, aerial fabric, robotics, virtual reality, and operating systems. To name a few.
Ian aspires to engineer control systems for manned spacecraft. If he can really have his way, he’ll be inside those spacecraft as an explorer-astronaut.
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You have much more chance of being in one of those flights. I will be jealous, but cheering you on!