Len Losik's Papers Published by AIAA Space Conference on PHM and CBM Technologies Volume III (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781983911927)

Len experience with communications theory occurred following his first graduation from college, when he earned degrees in Physics and Mathematics simultaneously and then gained employment as an Electrical Engineer, designing, launching and controlling spacecraft for NASA and the U.S. Air Force. Academically, Len completed the academic requirements for three A.A. degrees, two B.S. degrees in Physics and Mathematics simultaneously, an M.A. degree and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. degree in Education. Professionally, Len is an award winning spacecraft designer and designed satellites and rockets for the military and NASA as well as national and international civil, commercial and government organizations. Len's most important accomplishment professionally occurred when he was the Boeing GPS Space and Ground Systems Manager and won funding for the U.S. Air Force's Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite-based navigation system by the Department of Defense/Pentagon, replacing two existing low earth orbiting, satellite-based navigation systems in place by the U.S. Navy by developing and using PHM technology on GPS satellites. Len has also been an executive at several aerospace and defense industry companies as well as telecommunications and computer manufacturing companies. His collaborations with counseling, psychologists and psychiatrists began in 1989 and continues today, working with holistic medicine practitioners and students and in the new field of predictive medicine. When the Canadian Space Agency's Predictive Medicine personnel requested he apply his proprietary, predictive algorithms to determine if he could predict which astronauts would become mentally ill on long duration space mssions, he agreed to do it. The research for the Canadian Space Agency is included in this book and an edited version of his research was published at the 2013 IEEE/AIAA Aerospace Conference in Big Sky Montana and he then published his edited results in the Internet based, American Journal of Applied Psychology for public access and to NASA Headquarters in 2013. Len's research triggered NASA to inmate a study to determine the long term degradation of astronauts by keeping an astronaut in space continuously for one year. Six female astronauts were immediately hired and augment the many male astronauts. The physical and mental degradation from the first astronaut in the study after just 10 months is planned to be released by NASA in 2018.