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Dr. Rick Fleeter is a professor of engineering at Brown University and La Sapienza / University of Rome, where he is also a consultant to the Italian Space Agency. In 1988 he founded and was for 21 years President of the small satellite and space transportation company AeroAstro, during which time he also co-founded Encounter 2001, and created the International Small Satellite Organization (ISSO) and Space Horizons. He has been responsible for development of over 20 miniature satellites ranging from 1 to 110 kg. Rick has written the only two books dedicated to small satellite technology and management, Micro Space Craft and The Logic of Microspace. He authored the small satellite chapters of the two most recent major textbooks on spacecraft engineering, Space Mission Analysis and Design and Reducing Space Mission Cost and the Small Satellite Technology entry in Macmillan's Space Sciences encyclopedia. His book of episodes from the road, trail and air following the life of the itinerant aerospace manager, triathlete and long distance cyclist, Travels of a Thermodynamicist, was released in Spring, 2007 His most recent book, Love Is Strong As Death, which he co-wrote with his late wife Nancy, was released in January 2011.