Редактирование: Christopher Altman (раздел)

==Kavli Institute of Nanoscience==
[[File:Wormhole_travel_as_envisioned_by_Les_Bossinas_for_NASA.jpg|right|300px|thumb|<small>While at Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Altman took up collaborations with Martin Tajmar, whose research includes spaceflight, gravitomagnetic frame dragging, and breakthrough propulsion physics.</small>]] 
Under support from a Kavli Institute of Nanoscience graduate fellowship in applied physics and nanoscience at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, he conducted experimental work in quantum entanglement and secure communications, international fieldwork in optical fabrication technology, metrology, microlens array and coherent optics research applications,<ref>Altman, Christopher [https://www.academia.edu/267642/Microlens_Array_Fabrication_via_Microjet_Printing_Technologies Microlens Array Fabrication via Microjet Printing Technologies]</ref> attending opening ceremonies<ref>[http://www.wyp2005.org/unesco/photos/index.html%7Ctitle=Photo Gallery 2005 UNESCO Opening Conference for the World Year of Physics]</ref><ref>[https://www.aps.org/newsroom/pressreleases/wypparis.cfm World Year of Physics Opens with Paris Conference]</ref><ref>[https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200502/upload/feb05.pdf American Physical Society: World Year of Physics Opening Conference at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris]. American Physical Society.</ref> for the 2005 World Year of Physics at UNESCO headquarters. At the 25th Triennial Conference on Low-Temperature Condensed Matter Physics, he took up collaborations with Austrian breakthrough propulsion physicist Martin Tajmar, whose shared research includes advanced space propulsion systems, gravitomagnetic frame dragging,<ref>Tajmar, M.; Hense, K. [http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a461571.pdf POSSIBLE GRAVITATIONAL ANOMALIES IN QUANTUM MATERIALS. Phase I: Experiment Definition and Design]. Air Force Research Laboratory, United States Air Force. Volume: AFRL-MN-EG-TR-2007-7012 DTIC/STINFO COPY</ref><ref>Tajmar, Martin. [http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a461570.pdf POSSIBLE GRAVITATIONAL ANOMALIES IN QUANTUM MATERIALS. Phase II: Experiment Assembly, Qualification and Test Results]. DTIC/STINFO COPY. Award No. FA8655-03-1-3075</ref> and breakthrough propulsion physics.<ref>[https://peadarcoyle.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/how-to-become-an-astronaut-or-a-rhodes-scholar/ How to become an Astronaut or a Rhodes Scholar]. Models are illuminating (2018-03-01).</ref>

In collaboration with colleague and advisor, NSF Program Manager Paul Werbos, recipient of the IEEE Neural Network Pioneer Award for his 1974 discovery of backpropagation in artificial neural networks, Altman and coauthors introduced backpropagation to superposed adaptive quantum networks.<ref name=":462" /> The most recently published results appeared in the ''International Journal of Theoretical Physics'',<ref name=":462" /><ref name=":472">Altman, C. & Zapatrin, R.R. International Journal of Theoretical Physics (2010) 49: 2991. ''Backpropagation Training in Adaptive Quantum Networks.'' December 2010,&nbsp;Volume '''49''',&nbsp;Issue&nbsp;12,&nbsp;pp 2991–2997. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-009-0103-1</ref> preceded by the NATO Advanced Study Institute in Italy.<ref name=":222" /><ref name=":452" /><ref>[http://videolectures.net/mmdss07_gazzada/ NATO Advanced Study Institute on Mining Massive Data Sets for Security]</ref> In February 2009, Discover Magazine interviewed Altman for a cover story on quantum biology.<blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid #ccc;" data-ve-attributes="{&quot;style&quot;:&quot;border-left: 5px solid #ccc;&quot;}">New experiments keep finding quantum processes at play in biological systems. With the advent of powerful new tools like femtosecond lasers and nanoscale precision positioning, life’s quantum dance is finally coming into view.</blockquote><blockquote>''—'' interview for ''Entangled Minds, Discover Magazine'' <ref name=":122">[http://discovermagazine.com/2009/feb/13-is-quantum-mechanics-controlling-your-thoughts Discover Magazine. Cover Story: "Is Quantum Mechanics Controlling Your Thoughts?"]. Anderson, Mark. 2009-02-13. Discover Magazine.</ref></blockquote>

===Flight training===
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Altman is a type-rated glider pilot. In Delft he was an active member of the Delft Student Aeroclub, a glider and sailplane association founded in 1931 under joint sponsorship from TU Delft and the Royal Netherlands Air Force (Koninklijke Luchtmacht). His lead flight instructor, Mark de Jonge, veteran F-16 pilot with the Royal Netherlands Air Force, twice deployed to Afghanistan flying one of four F-16 Fighting Falcons assigned to Operation Enduring Freedom as part of the 1st Netherlands-Norwegian European Participating Forces Expeditionary Air Wing (1 NLD/NOR EEAW). In the heat of combat, de Jonge's wingman was shot down—not once, but twice by surface-to-air (SAM) missiles—the same pilot narrowly ejecting to safety on both occasions.<ref>[https://magazines.defensie.nl/vliegendehollander/2017/10/07_c-17-van-heavy-airlift-wing-in-swift-response Tactische transporters]. Dutch Ministry of Defense, The Netherlands (Accessed 2018-03-01).</ref> In a post-flight debriefing, Altman notes the incident as “a poignant example for maintaining situational awareness at all times—when a split second can mean the difference between life and death.”<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/altman/28030166219%7C Flight Training: Capt Mark de Jonge, F-16 Fighting Falcon]. Photo Album (Accessed 2018-03-01).</ref>
[[File:Astronauts_disembark_G-Force_One_at_NASA_Ames.png|border|right|308x308px|Astronauts Daniel Barry (''left''), Soyeon Yi (''center''), and '''Christopher Altman''' aft of G-Force One following a parabolic flight at NASA Ames in 2009. Altman and Yi are now both active commercial scientist-astronauts with the [[Association of Spaceflight Professionals]]]]
[[File:Yi+Malenchenko+Whitson_at_ISS_08Apr17_(NASA-ISS016-E-036365).jpg|border|thumb|300x300px|<small title="Burt Kaliski">KARI Astronaut Soyeon Yi with NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson (''right''), Expedition 16 commander, and Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko (''center''), flight engineer, on the International Space Station in April 2008</small>]]

===Spaceflight training===
In 2008, Altman was recruited to Silicon Valley’s NASA Ames Research Center to help design the architecture for a course that selected forty of the top candidates from more than 1600 applicants worldwide. The inaugural program aimed to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders—the presidents, chancellors, and national agency directors of tomorrow—to facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies, and to “apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity’s grand challenges to positively impact the lives of one billion people over the course of ten years.”<ref name=":510" /><ref name=":Kurzweil" />

As teaching fellow and faculty advisor in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (AIR), Networks and Computing Systems (NCS), Space and Physical Sciences (SPS), then as department Chair for the executive session of the program, he worked on the project until tasked to Hawai‘i by astronaut training mentor and NASA Ames Director, USAF Brigadier General and former Commander, 50th Space Wing, astrophysicist Pete Worden, to represent Ames on assignment to space and security interests on the Big Island of Hawai‘i.<ref name=":510" /><ref name=":302" /><ref name=":Kurzweil" /><ref>S<sup>2</sup>DS<sup>2</sup>A 2015. <sup>持続的宇宙開発と宇宙状況認識推進のための国際シンポジウム- 過去を学び、共に今を未来へ</sup>- US-Japan Space National Security Interests: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99KWApna6GoVTFPa3FHT1l0S2hCSFpxbVNMUEdsZGpkekl3/view International Symposium on Sustainable Space Development and Space Situational Awareness].</ref>

Altman completed Zero G and High-Altitude Physiological Training under the Reduced Gravity Research Program at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, then served as representative to the Japan-U.S. Science, Technology, and Space Applications Program (JUSTSAP), the Pacific International Space Alliance (PISA) and the founding conference for an astronaut training facility, the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES) on the slopes of Mauna Kea on the Big Island. He regularly returns to the Big Island and to Mauna Kea to maintain spaceflight readiness.<ref name=":Kurzweil" /><ref name=":302" /><ref name=":510" />