PERIMETER INSTITUTE RECORDED SEMINAR ARCHIVE
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Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots is Boldy Privatizing Space Speaker(s): Michael Belfiore
Abstract: In the 'second space age', human spaceflight is no longer the domain of governments. Dream-chasing entrepreneurs and clever engineers are aggressively blazing new trails into the heavens and preparing the world for an era of space tourism, ultra fast point-to-point earth travel and even orbiting hotels. Having gained inside access into the top private space programs, science journalist Michael Belfiore will share his many insights on the history-making flights, the failures and fatalities, as well as the enduring passion and dreams of the real estate tycoons, dot-com billionaires, a video game programmer and other business mavericks for whom the sky is no longer the limit. They are fueling the highest-flying private rockets ever built, testing "vertical dragsters", and preparing to launch an inflatable space station - with the mock-up already in earth orbit. Can your ticket to ride be that far behind?
Date: 06/02/2008 - 7:00 pm
Collection: Perimeter Institute Public Lecture Series
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