[1] Glaser's areas of professional activity have included solar and arc imaging furnaces, high temperature research, solar power satellites, solar heating and cooling, photovoltaic conversion, rural electrification systems using renewable resources, lunar surface missions, commercial space power, remote sensing, extra-vehicular activity on the Moon, launch site selection, space station habitation module appliances, advanced space transportation devices, space-based sensor systems to identify carbon dioxide-induced climate changes, space station portable contamination detectors, spacesuit gloves and boot soles, extravehicular dust protection, power relay satellites, and high-altitude long-endurance aircraft using wireless power transmission.
He was responsible for the Lunar Heat Flow Probes and the Lunar Gravimeter which were operational during the Apollo program,[3] and the Initial Blood Storage Experiment[2] flown on the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-61-C) in January 1986, to explore gravitational effects on human blood cells.
He served as a member of the Materials Advisory Board of the National Academy of Sciences (1958) of its Study Group on Solar Energy (1971–85).
He was a member of the Solar Power Satellite Advisory Panel of the Office of Technology Assessment of the United States Congress (1980–81).
He was a member of the Management Advisory Board of the Center for Space Power of the Texas A&M University System (1990–94).
[verification needed] Glaser was a voting member of the Engineering Council of Columbia University (1984) and an advisor to Space Power Research, Japan (1998–2005).
[1] Glaser was awarded the Carl F. Kayan Medal in 1974 by Columbia University for contributions to the field of engineering.
In 1993 the International Astronautical Federation established the Peter Glaser Plenary Lecture to be given at the Annual Congresses.
However, this collection remained in Czechoslovakia when he immigrated to the US, and as of his death the Czech Republic's government had refused to relinquish it to him.
The collection consists of 99 items,[12] including ceremonial daggers, hand-carved water vessels, a stone lantern from the palace of the Queen of Sheba, antique vases, porcelain and ceramic objets d'art, and hand-woven textiles.