David Livingston
Owner, The Space Show/One Giant Leap Foundation, Inc. and Aviation & Aerospace Consultant
Dr. David Livingston is the founder and host of The Space Show® (www.thespaceshow.com), a live broadcast internet radio space educational talk show program.. In the 22 plus years and more than 4,000 live radio interviews, The Space Show has been a U.S. and global leader for space development and education as a live broadcast talk radio program focused exclusively on space commerce, tourism, exploration, science, policy - domestic & international, economics, development, national security space, new and innovative technology, and much more to help enable our growing space-fairing economy and society. Dr. Livingston is also the Executive Director of the One Giant Leap Foundation, Inc. (OGLF), the 501(C)3 that controls The Space Show and strives to promote space education.
Dr. Livingston was an Adjunct Professor of Space Studies in the Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences at the University of North Dakota where he taught graduate classes on commercial space for more than a decade. Livingston has a BA in Political Science, an MBA specializing in International Business Management & Economics, and a Doctor in Business Administration (DBA) degree. His 2001 DBA dissertation was titled Outer Space Commerce: Its History and Prospects. Dr. Livingston did his graduate and post graduate work at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, CA while his undergraduate studies were at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Livingston is a frequent speaker at space conferences and has published more than 50 papers including chapters in books and peer reviewed works. For example, he authored the Space Tourism chapter in the Space Encyclopedia and co-authored three business and financial chapters in the New SMAD Textbook, Space Mission Engineering: The New SMAD published by Dr. Jim Wertz. David has lectured at several universities and has been a guest on many national and international radio and TV programs in the U.S. and throughout Europe. In addition, he co-hosts a weekly podcast radio segment, Hotel Mars, which airs on the CBS Eye On The World podcast with John Batchelor and his nationally syndicated radio program.
Lastly, Dr. Livingston is frequently interviewed by authors writing books on space development, commerce, and policy. When not teaching, broadcasting, writing, or just playing, Livingston consults with those working to establish a commercial space ventures, media, and policy. He also makes time for his family and Pepper, his Siberian Husky who is the unofficial Space Show mascot and featured on The Space Show website. Livingston is finishing up his book about The Space Show from 2001 to present day.
