Mars: Visible and Near Infrared Studies and the Composition of the Surface(1967)
Personaledit
O'Leary was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts on January 27, 1940. He decided to become an astronaut after visiting Washington, D.C. as a teenager.[2] On December 1, 1983, O'Leary was married to Delores Marie Lefkowitz, also known as Dee Davenport, in Yarmouth, Massachusetts.[3]
O'Leary became politically active early in his career and participated in a demonstration in Washington, D.C. in 1970, to protest the Cambodian Campaign. Richard Nixon administration officials invited O'Leary and his fellow Cornell professors to present their views.[34][35] In 1975 and 1976, he worked on Morris Udall's presidential campaign as an energy advisor, as well as for the U.S. House Interior Committee subcommittee on energy and the environment as Udall's special staff consultant on energy.[20] O'Leary worked for U.S. presidential candidates Jesse Jackson, Dennis Kucinich, George McGovern, and Walter Mondale.[9][36]
A remote viewing experience in 1979[43] and a near-death experience in 1982[44] initiated O'Leary's departure from orthodox science. After Princeton, O'Leary worked at Science Applications International Corporation.[20] He refused to work on military space applications, for which reason he lost his position there in 1987.[45] Beginning in 1987, O'Leary increasingly explored unorthodox ideas, particularly the relationship between consciousness and science, and became widely known for his writings on "the frontiers of science, space, energy and culture".[20][46]
With artist Meredith Miller, his third wife and widow, he co-founded the Montesueños Eco-Retreat in Vilcabamba, Ecuador in 2008, which is devoted to "peace, sustainability, the arts and new science".[49]
Deathedit
O'Leary contracted skin cancer in his 60s, which he treated with an alternative methodology involving a substance called Cansema. After surviving his second heart attack (precipitated by an ayahuasca ceremony)[50] in 2010, he died of intestinal cancer on July 28, 2011, soon after diagnosis, at his home in Vilcabamba.
Publicationsedit
The Making of an Ex-Astronaut 1970. ISBN 0671772856.
^Among the papers on Mars published before O'Leary's astronaut selection were: Rea, D.G.; O'Leary, B.T. (1965). "Visible Polarization Data of Mars". Nature. 206 (4989): 1138–1140. Bibcode:1965Natur.206.1138R. doi:10.1038/2061138a0. S2CID 4292231.
^O'Leary, Brian T. (1965). "A Revised Upper Limit of NO2 in the Martian Atmosphere" (PDF). Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 12 (456): 168. Bibcode:1965PASP...77..168O. doi:10.1086/128188. S2CID 120598264.; Rea, D.G.; O'Leary, B.T.; Sinton, W.M. (March 12, 1965). "Mars: The Origin of the 3.58- and 3.69-Micron Minima in the Infrared Spectra". Science. 147 (3663): 1286–88. Bibcode:1965Sci...147.1286R. doi:10.1126/science.147.3663.1286. PMID 17790823. S2CID 38382948.
^O'Leary, B.T; Rea, D.G. (January 20, 1967). "Mars: Influence of Topography on Formation of Temporary Bright Patches". Science. 155 (3760): 317–319. Bibcode:1967Sci...155..317O. doi:10.1126/science.155.3760.317. PMID 17792055. S2CID 29060847.
^O'Leary's PhD thesis: O'Leary, Brian T. (1967). Mars: Visible and Near Infrared Studies and the Composition of the Surface(PDF). Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley. Abstract in: Astronomical Journal. American Institute of Physics. 1967. p. 317.
^O'Leary, Brian (1970). The Making of an Ex-Astronaut. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-671-77285-7.
^ abShayler, David J.; Burgess, Colin (2006). NASA's Scientist-Astronauts. Springer Praxis Books. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-387-21897-7.
^O'Leary, Brian (1970). The Making of an Ex-Astronaut. Houghton Mifflin. pp. 198–199. ISBN 978-0-671-77285-7.
^O'Leary, B.T. (1968). "The influence of lunar mascons on its dynamical figure". Nature. 220 (5174): 1309. Bibcode:1968Natur.220.1309O. doi:10.1038/2201309a0. S2CID 4167123.; O'Leary, Brian T.; Campbell, Malcolm J.; Sagan, Carl (August 15, 1969). "Lunar and Planetary Mass Concentrations". Science. 165 (3894): 651–657. Bibcode:1969Sci...165..651O. doi:10.1126/science.165.3894.651. PMID 17780710.
^Campbell, Malcolm J.; O'Leary, Brian T.; Sagan, Carl (June 13, 1968). "Moon: Two New Mascon Basins". Science. 164 (3885): 1273–75. Bibcode:1969Sci...164.1273C. doi:10.1126/science.164.3885.1273. PMID 17772565. S2CID 44720892.
^"C.V.of Dr. Brian O'Leary". Archived from the original on September 16, 2008.
^Murray, Bruce C.; Brian O'Leary; et al. (March 29, 1974). "Venus: Atmospheric Motion and Structure from Mariner 10 Pictures". Science. 183 (4131): 1307–1315. Bibcode:1974Sci...183.1307M. doi:10.1126/science.183.4131.1307. PMID 17791373. S2CID 25469486.
^Murray, Bruce C.; Brian O'Leary; et al. (July 12, 1974). "Mercury's Surface: Preliminary Description and Interpretation from Mariner 10 Pictures". Science. 185 (4146): 169–179. Bibcode:1974Sci...185..169M. doi:10.1126/science.185.4146.169. PMID 17810511. S2CID 39925871.
^O'Leary, Brian (1975). "Venus: vertical structure of stratospheric hazes from Mariner 10 pictures". Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 32 (6): 1091–1100. Bibcode:1975JAtS...32.1091O. doi:10.1175/1520-0469(1975)032<1091:VVSOSH>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1520-0469.
^O'Leary, "Comments on Mariner 10 and Ground-based UV observations of Venus", Conference on the atmosphere of Venus, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, October 1974, pp. 63–68, and in same publication: O'Leary, "Stratospheric hazes from Mariner 10 limb pictures of Venus", pp. 129–132.
^"appendix d". SP-424 The Voyage of Mariner 10. NASA. Retrieved April 10, 2012.
^O'Leary, Brian T.; O'Neill, Gerard K. (September 1979). "Space Manufacturing, Satellite Power and Human Exploration". Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 4 (3). Maney Publishing: 193–207. Bibcode:1979ISRv....4..193O. doi:10.1179/030801879789768144.
^O'Neill, Gerard K.; Driggers, G.; O'Leary, B. (1980). "New Routes to Manufacturing in Space". Astronautics and Aeronautics. 18: 46–51. Bibcode:1980AsAer..18...46G.
^O'Leary, Brian (1982). Space Industrialization — Volume 1. Vol. 1. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-5890-6.
^O'Leary, Brian (1982). Space Industrialization — Volume 2. Vol. 2. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-5891-3.
^O'Leary, Brian (July 22, 1977). "Mining the Apollo and Amor Asteroids". Science. 197 (4301): 363–366. Bibcode:1977Sci...197..363O. doi:10.1126/science.197.4301.363-a. PMID 17797965. S2CID 45597532.
^O'Leary, Brian (1983). Burke, James D.; Whitt, April S (eds.). "Mining the Earth-Approaching Asteroids for Their Precious and Strategic Metals". Advances in the Astronautical Sciences. Proceedings of Princeton Conference on Space Manufacturing. 53. San Diego, CA: American Astronautical Society: 375–389.; O'Leary, Brian (1984). McKay, Christopher (ed.). "Phobos & Deimos as Resource & Exploration Centers". The Case for Mars II. Presented at the 2nd Case For Mars conference, Boulder. 81–164. Boulder, Colorado: American Astronautical Society: 225–245.
^O'Leary, Brian (1989). McKay, Christopher (ed.). "Mars 1999: A Concept for Low-Cost Near Term Human Exploration and Propulsion Processing on Phobos and Deimos". Case for Mars III. 204. American Astronautical Society.
^O'Leary, Brian (1985). "Rationales for Early Human Missions to Phobos and Deimos". In Mendell, W.W (ed.). Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century. Lunar and Planetary Institute. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-942862-02-7.
^O'Neill, G.; O'Leary, B., eds. (1977). Space Manufacturing from Nonterrestrial Materials – in Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics. vol. 57. AIAA.
^Billingham, John; Gilbreath, William; O'Leary, Brian, eds. (1979). Space Resources and Space Settlements. SP-428. Washington, D.C.: NASA. Archived from the original on February 4, 2020. Retrieved December 17, 2010.
^O'Leary, Brian; Gaffey, Michael J.; Ross, David J.; Salkeld, Robert (1979). "Retrieval of Asteroidal Materials". In John Billingham; William Gilbreath; Brian O'Leary (eds.). Space Resources and Space Settlements. SP-428. Washington, D.C.: NASA. pp. 142–154. Archived from the original on December 21, 2010. Retrieved December 17, 2010.
^O'Leary, Brian (1981). The Fertile Stars. Everest House. ISBN 978-0-89696-079-4.
^O'Leary, Brian (1989). Exploring Inner and Outer Space. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books. pp. 131–132. ISBN 978-1-55643-068-8.
^O'Leary, Brian (2009). The Energy Solution Revolution. Bridger House Publishers, Inc. pp. 180–181. ISBN 978-0-9799176-4-6.
^O'Leary, Brian (1989). Exploring Inner and Outer Space. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-1-55643-068-8.; O'Leary, Brian (1993). The Second Coming of Science. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-1-55643-152-4.
^O'Leary, Brian (1996). Miracle in the Void. Kihei, Hawaii: Kamapua'a Press. ISBN 978-0-9647826-0-0.
^O'Leary, Brian (2003). Re-Inheriting the Earth. self-published. ISBN 978-0-939040-37-7.
^"Montesuenos: A center for peace, sustainability, the arts and new science". Montesueños Eco-Retreat. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
^"Decades of Magical Thinking: Dr. Brian O'Leary's Final Years - National Space Society". April 16, 2020.
External linksedit
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O'Leary lecture at Youtube
"The Life of Dr. Brian O'Leary, glntv.tv; accessed March 19, 2014.
The Life and Career of Dr. Brian O'Leary (presentation by David William Gibbons; accessed March 19, 2014.