John Robinson is the sort of man whose views on matters scientific and environmental must be taken seriously.  His conclusions on oil spills, based on long experience, do not comport with environmentalist orthodoxy, to say the least.

A member of Santa Barbara—based Heal The Ocean, John Robinson is a former engineer who's been assistant to Dell Hess, Director of Science for Manned Space Flight, and who worked 'for a little while' as an engineer for Chris Kraft, legendary NASA Flight Director at the Houston Space Center during the Apollo moon landings.  John admits to also having done a 'little bit of work' for the U.S. Air Force in ballistic missiles as the space program was developing.

He left NASA.