Mitchell Burnside Clapp
Mitchell Burnside Clapp is an Australian-American aerospace engineer, former test pilot, and musician. He received Bachelor of Science degrees in Physics, Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Russian, as well as a Master of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career
In the late 1980s and 1990s, Burnside Clapp attended the U.S. [Air Force Test Pilot School] and worked on the YA-7F and DC-X projects.Together with Robert Zubrin and Chuck Lauer, Burnside Clapp founded Pioneer Rocketplane in 1996. He and Zubrin authored a piece in the MIT [Technology Review] of January/February 1998 calling for more air-launched rockets.
From 2011 to 2015, Burnside Clapp served as a program manager at DARPA.