10 Facts About Jordin Kare

Jordin T Kare was an American physicist and aerospace engineer who researched laser propulsion.

Jordin Kare was responsible for Mockingbird, a conceptual design for an extremely small reusable launch vehicle, and was involved in the Clementine lunar mapping mission.

Jordin Kare was the brother of Susan Jordin Kare, designer of the fonts and icons of the original Apple Macintosh user interface.

Jordin Kare worked for many years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Jordin Kare was a leading advocate of laser propulsion for space launch and in-space propulsion.

Jordin Kare organized a 1986 workshop on laser propulsion at LLNL and later led a development program for ground to orbit laser launch supported by SDIO.

Jordin Kare received a NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts grant to study a near-term form of laser launch using arrays of relatively low-powered lasers.

Jordin Kare proposed the SailBeam Boosted Magsail in a report prepared for NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts called "High-Acceleration Micro-Scale Laser Sails for Interstellar Propulsion".

Jordin Kare was a regular attendee and program participant at science fiction conventions starting in 1975.

Jordin Kare was an editor of The Westerfilk Collection: Songs of Fantasy and Science Fiction, an important filksong collection, and later a partner in Off Centaur Publications, the first commercial publisher specializing in filk songbooks and recordings.