During his studies at UC Berkeley, Siemion was a recipient of the Josephine de Karman Fellowship, a scholarship program established in 1954 by the late Dr. Theodore von Karman, world - renowned
aeronautics expert, teacher and first director of the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology.
An aeronautics expert with a Ph.D. from MIT, he has developed his own plan to take us back to the moon, to the asteroids, to Mars, and beyond.