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Van Vandegrift (born February 13, 1969) is an American Hollywood producer, entrepreneur, speaker, and adventurer. Major film projects in 2008 included ''Get Smart'' and ''Journey to the Center of the Earth''. He has produced numerous television projects, including ''Kings of South Beach'', starring Donnie Wahlberg, from Van’s concept with writer Nicholas Pileggi (''Goodfellas'', ''Casino''). His credits also include hit series such as ''Gene Simmons Family Jewels'' (A&E) and other Fox and NBC series, as well as innovative viral marketing web series and mobile series. His next project stars Ludacris and Tommy Lee. == Early adventures == Vandegrift was born in Huntsville, Alabama, where his parents worked at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. As a child, he frequently spent time at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center and Space Camp, where he fell in love with films and television documenting the space race and the human experience. His childhood hero was Wernher von Braun. The family later moved to Zweibrücken Air Base in Germany, where Vandegrift discovered many adventures, traveling extensively as a young adult to European countries and immersing himself in history and culture. Vandegrift also developed a talent for languages, studying German and Russian. He became an admitted adrenaline junkie, earning certifications and awards for snow skiing, mountaineering, riflery, spelunking, SCUBA diving, catamaran sailing, motocross racing, skydiving and hang gliding. As an extension of these adventures, Vandegrift wrote, directed and produced a number of 8 mm films covering these subjects. An excellent student, Vandegrift dreamed of one day working at the NASA Mission Control Center in Houston. In 1985, he received a scholarship to nearby Texas A&M University where he enrolled as one of over 300 freshmen in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, later graduating in 1990 as one of only 34 remaining students. At age 19, Vandegrift became one of the youngest protégées ever selected by NASA into its undergraduate cooperative education program, and began working in Mission Control at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. Van received a Top Secret clearance and trained astronauts for spacewalks, working underwater in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory and flying in zero-gravity aboard NASA's famed Vomit Comet. Vandegrift also earned multiple FAA certifications, including flight instructor, logging over 1200 pilot-in-command hours in 29 different types of aircraft. Continuing his love of storytelling, Van was able to work with Arriflex 16 mm and IMAX 72 mm cameras used by the astronauts to film breathtaking scenes. Following graduation, Vandegrift attended the International Space University in Toronto, Canada in 1990 (and returned as an instructor in 1991 in Toulouse, France). He received a NASA post-graduate fellowship at the Marshall Space Flight Center Alabama Space Grant Consortium, where he designed and built experiments and computer hardware that flew into space aboard NASA Consort Rockets and the Space Shuttle. He earned a Masters of Science degree. With his adventurous background and language skills, Vandegrift was commissioned as an Ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1992. After his promotion to Lieutenant in 1994, Vandegrift became a Naval Intelligence Officer serving with United States Navy SEALs aboard the USS ''Whirlwind'', the , and the aircraft carrier . Vandegrift's Navy training and experience helped craft his strategic and leadership abilities. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Van Vandegrift」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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