Dale Amon is a NewSpace pioneer, engineer, entrepreneur, and long-time space advocate whose career bridges academia, aerospace startups, and AI-assisted archival innovation.
National Space Society: Board member and L5 Society veteran. Dale founded the Pittsburgh L5 chapter in 1982; helped lead Spacepac chapters (1984–87); chaired both regional and ISDC conferences (ISDC ’87, and the NSS Conference Coordinating Committee from 2002–2016); created the NSS Archives Committee; and served as founding Chair of the Space Settlement Summit.
Recognized with the NSS Exceptional Service Award (2007) and named Space Activist of the Year (2011).
Immortal Data Inc. (CEO & President): Founded and leads the company developing reconfigurable, flight-qualified “black box” data systems for spacecraft, including autonomous post-incident survivability modules. Dale has worked on FAA/AST and NASA-backed initiatives and served on-site as Senior Engineer for XCOR Aerospace’s Lynx Spaceplane.
Academic & early technical career: BS in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon, with graduate work under Nobel laureate Dr. Herbert Simon. Research spanned robotics, haptics, and Unix systems (since 1983). Co-founded Ireland’s first ISP and held academic posts at Queen’s University Belfast and CMU.
AI Integration: Amon is pioneering the use of AI in real-time test engineering, digital archiving, and historical reconstruction — integrating structured logging, communication capture, and automated metadata extraction for a multi-decade spaceflight and advocacy archive.
Creative & technical breadth: Dale is a certified pilot, a professional musician with international performance credits, and an author in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. He’s testified before national commissions and contributed to public and policy discourse on human spaceflight since the 1980s.