Bio - ir. Luc Vautmans, MSc.

° 07 January 1971 - married - 3 children.

Luc Vautmans is an academic civil engineer (Master in Engineering - KU Leuven) with specializations in energy conversion, nuclear techniques and aerospace design. Luc complemented his basic education with numerous additional courses in business administration, corporate finance, sales and leadership, including the Executive Development Program of the Boston Business School (Class of '11). Luc acts free(lance) as a sr. management consultant in aerospace (Executive Director Satellite Projects) to Asgardia & IARC.

Luc started his career in the space business, with Verhaert Space (the current QinetiQ Space) in Kruibeke. In +13 years Luc realized about 15 large projects for human spaceflight in close collaboration with ESA, NASA and the Russian space agency Roskosmos (POCKOCMOC), including the 5 major experiments that the Belgian astronaut Frank De Winne performed during his 2 space flights. Luc held successively posts as Project Manager, Contracts Manager, Head of Project Office (aerospace), General Manager Belgium (petro-chemical multinational) and CPMO for 2 sister companies (off-shore sector) and guided teams of  +200 employees.

In 2013, at the age of 42, Luc was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma after a routine examination; a very aggressive cancer, metastasized through more than 40 large tumors to various vital organs. The statistical prognosis on overall survival was 3 months with a survival probability of only 3%. That is now more than 5 years ago and it is expected that Luc will also bring his most important project to a successful conclusion. In the last 5 years since his diagnosis, Luc has made about +50 trips with the family, with each of the children separately and with some loyal friends: skydiving (skydiving) at exotic locations, skiing, paragliding, sailing and long solo journeys by motorcycle. Luc is convinced that our brain is a very good pharmacy for our body and called his modest therapy 'Adren@lpine' (Adrenaline + Alps). Luc documented his bucket list adventures in +90 edited videoclips for his children.

Luc is co-founder and board member of Melanoompunt.be (non-profit), the first patient organization in Belgium for melanoma patients and their next-of-kin and also Patient Advocate for the Melanoma Patient Network Europe (MPNE).

Luc is the president of Skydive Antwerp - Hoevenen (non profit), a skydive club with its own turbine aircraft and an annual turnover of + 200k€.

Luc likes good food, excellent wines, special beers, smart books and bad jokes.

Being an Asgardian citizen for a while, I feel like I have to make some kind of contribution, and I decided that it's gonna be space art and space ambient music. Because let's face it : the universe is mostly an empty grey and silent place. (there's a reason why all Hubble pics are pimped with artificial colouring). So I'm gonna fill this space with some of my alien 3D renders and ethereal cosmic music. This render I made in Artmatic Voyager software, an amazing platform to create procedural imaginary spacescapes.

Best wishes for 2019 to everyone on planet Earth and beyond!

Let the force be with you to fulfill all your dreams so the Sky  is NOT your limit anymore...

My congratulations to Igor for becoming the first head of nation and to all Asgardians for this step and the next ones to come. I feel honored to have been a part of this historic event and I even met with Igor. It was an amazing moment within an even more amazing inauguration. Igor is a very polite and interesting person, it was very nice to have a short conversation with him.

Merhaba Asgardian arkadaşlar. Seninle olmaktan mutluyum. Ben bir keşif bilimcisiyim. Mesajım: dünyadaki ilk "kendimiz" olmalıyız! Doğal durumumuzdan ciddi bir çıkış var! Sonra evrensel bir rezonansa dönüşür. Yeni bir dünyaya sahip oluruz, bir boşluk!
aksi halde kirlilik taşırız!
Sevgi ve saygıyla ...

Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me.

Take me out to the black
Tell them I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me.

Leave the men where they lay
They'll never see another day
Lost my soul, lost my dream
You can't take the sky from me.

I feel the black reaching out
I hear its song without a doubt
I still hear and I still see
That you can't take the sky from me.

Lost my love, lost my land
Lost the last place I could stand
There's no place I can be
Since I've found Serenity

And you can't take the sky from me.

source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/fireflylyrics.html

We had ready this big suppository  to host the European Medicines Agency in Barcelona but... it was no possible. We´ll try to think another idea to make useful this building. Maybe we will launch it to the space?

Teníamos preparado este gran supositorio para alojar a la Agencia Europea de los Medicamentos en Barcelona pero... no fue posible. Trataremos de pensar otra idea para darle utilidad a este edificio. ¿Tal vez lo lanzaremos al espacio?

Moral excellence is one of the foundations to swiftly move forward in the right direction as a species. Together with knowledge and hard (team)work, nothing would stop us.

I would be happy to receive your vote. This way I will be able to help Asgardia become an example for the rest of humanity.

Kind regards,

Wesley Heylbroeck
[Engineer interested in STEM, culture and abstract thinking]

“The desire to fly, is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air.” [Wilbur Wright]

"These beings, with soaring imagination, eventually flung themselves and their machines into interplanetary space." [Carolyn Porco ]

I'm member of the Pirate Party (on earth), and ran in elections on earth. I'm a strong defender of an open, liquid democracy.
Democracy is deciding where to go to and how to organize given reality.
Other important topics I defend: Critical thinking and transparency.
The right and freedom to share and copy-paste-adapt (thus a total IP reform) should be completely legal and without barriers
Note: I noticed the cicada project recently. I think Asgardia can greatly benefit from adopting these ideas! http://iamcicada.com/

I am a normal guy who thinks the current political system is not in touch with the common people. They stand way above the rest and do not understand everyday problems. I want to represent us as just a normal guy who thinks like you and will act accordingly. Power to the people!

Since I'm now an Asgardian, and being serious about it, I guess I'll have to start by introducing myself. Asgardia really feels like a place I've always been looking for. I know we're a space race and the universe is our future (and probably our past as well). So being Asgardian feels really natural to me. I'm actually very proud to be part of this community of likeminded people. What I want to contribute to Asgardia ? In short : space music ! I've been an ambient music producer for decades, and more and more my music has been becoming free of traditional earthy rules like timing and tuning signatures. My ambient music is based on randomness and unpredictability, very much like life and the universe itself, and I always picture it as being the perfect soundtrack for space travel in hybernation, or just working on board of a space vessel, while occasionally looking outside to wonder off into deep thoughts. So expect some links to my cosmic soundscapes here soon, as well as some of my deeper reflections about the place of us humans in the universe. The picture above is one I made of an imaginary planet landscape, and is the artwork of one of my DeepMind ambient pieces. Give it a listen while you're here in Asgardia : I think you'll find it goes really well with being in space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2APzMIXoHQg&t=7209s

Thanks so much for accepting me as an Asgardian. I look forward to see this place grow into a fantastic community.