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About Dr Paul Scully-Power
Dr Paul Scully-Power is a well-known businessman, innovator, and corporate strategist. His also Australia’s first astronaut, having been a crew member on flight STS 13 of the space shuttle Challenger in October 1984.
He has extensive commercial, government and academic experience and is widely known in the fields of marine science, aviation and aerospace, defence and national security, communication systems, education, and the environment.
Dr Scully-Power is past Chairman of the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority and the Government’s International Space Advisory Group and was the inaugural Chairman of the Queensland Premier’s Science and Technology Council.
Prior to that he spent over twenty years in the United States where he managed and led many high technology and defence industry programs. He served with the U.S. Navy, NASA, the Pentagon, and the White House where he was the Head of a Government-Industry partnership for the development of advanced communications systems as part of the White House National Technology Strategy Program.
He is involved in many business and community groups and is a founding member of the advisory board of Environment Business Australia.
Among his awards are the Distinguished Service Medal (the highest honour awarded by the U.S. Navy), NASA Space Medal, Casey Baldwin Medallion of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute, United States Presidential Letter of Commendation, US Congressional Certificate of Merit, United Nations Association Distinguished Service Award, Laureate of the Albatross (Oceanography’s ‘Nobel Prize’), Order of the Decibel (the highest award in the field of Underwater Acoustics), and Australia’s highest aviation award the Oswald Watt Gold Medal.
He was appointed a Member in the Order of Australia on Australia Day 2004.
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