ARC Leaders https://web.archive.org/web/20130310023110/http://arc-space.wetpaint.com/page/ARC+Leaders  Ray Erikson is the Principal Engineer for Flight Materials, Inc., a Boston-based consulting firm specializing in aerospace environments and effects, material system problem-solving, and new material system development. His background includes systems engineering, structural design, stress analysis and materials development work on the Shuttle, the Space Station, various unmanned NASA probes, Air Force missile warning satellites, and some other space systems. He holds a patent on the truss-hex solar concentrator for space power generation, and currently co-chairs the Space Infrastructure Committee of the NASA Aerospace Technology Working Group. Steve Wolfe spent over five years as the legislative aide for space policy to the late Congressman George E. Brown, Jr. (D-CA). A high point of Wolfe’s career in Washington was the drafting and passage of the Space Settlement Act of 1988. Wolfe also served as Executive Director of the Congressional Space Caucus. In the 1990’s he built a career in the management of not-for-profit organizations, and currently serves as an executive for a major trade association based in New York City. Wolfe served on the Board of the National Space Society, his writing on space policy has appeared in The New York Times, Space News, Space Front, and Ad Astra. He has also appeared on radio and television speaking on space topics