"It's just starting," says Adam Jonas, managing director of Global Auto & Shared Mobility Research at Morgan Stanley, adding that just a few years ago, investing in space would have been on the average investor's mind as much as autonomous cars were a decade ago, or electric cars were before Tesla went public.
"I'd say it went from a zero out of 10 in terms of on people's minds, to approaching a one out of 10 today," he says. But make no mistake, the space industry is emerging due to the improved unit economics of putting things in orbit and improvements in technology. "The capability of what you can put 300 miles above the earth is very different" than it was in the 1990s, he says.
Many things are taking place:
How AI Can Help Astronauts Stay Healthy In Space
Mars pictured in natural color taken by the Rosetta spacecraft's Optical, Spectroscopic, and ... [+] Infrared Remote Imaging System (OSIRIS).
Astronauts on long-duration space flights need direct feedback on the quality of their muscles and bones. NASA is working with Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) to develop innovative approaches to keep humans healthy in space. TRISH is a consortium led by Baylor College of Medicine that includes CalTech and MIT.
Boeing's failed Starliner mission strains 'reliability' pitch - Reuters
SEATTLE/CAPE CANAVERAL (Reuters) - Boeing Co’s ( BA.N ) stunted Friday debut of its astronaut capsule threatens to dent the U.S. aerospace incumbent’s self-declared competitive advantage of mission reliability against the price and innovation strengths of “new space” players like Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace company, has anchored its attempt to repel space visionaries like Musk and Amazon.com ( AMZN.O ) founder Jeff Bezos partly on its mission safety record built up over decades of space travel.
Tech trends 2020: New spacecraft and bendy screens - BBC News
If your ambition is to fly into space - and you've got plenty of spare cash - then 2020 could be an exciting year.
If space travel is not really your thing, but you would like a much bigger screen on your mobile phone, then 2020 might also have some tech for you.
But if you think there are already too many phones out there and the technology industry needs to be less wasteful, well some tech companies might catch up with your thinking.
Many things are taking place:
Collins Aerospace in Windsor Locks applauds congressional funding for next-generation space suit
A day after the U.S. Senate gave final approval to funds to support NASA's 2024 moon mission, Collins Aerospace in Windsor Locks highlighted the importance of designing inclusive space suits for increasingly diverse crews with the new next-generation suit.
"We're making sure we have suits available for people of all body shapes and sizes," Kevin Grohs, Collins' general manager, said at a news conference Friday with U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal. A unit of United Technologies in Windsor Locks, Collins is building upon 50 years of experience to prepare for 2024.
'Ad Astra', Spaceport America, and the Future of Space Travel - Geek.com
In Albuquerque, New Mexico and the surrounding deserts, there are no such hills. The ground stretches for miles and doesn't stop until it hits the mountains in the distance or the skyline. To the ignorant, it probably looks like a whole lot of nothing. Ultimately though, that's kind of the point – you can't launch a spaceship from the middle of a city.
So maybe I shouldn't have been so caught off guard when I found out Spaceport America wasn't actually in Albuquerque but, in fact, two and a half hours outside of the city in the middle of the New Mexico desert. A spaceport requires, well, a whole lot of excess space as it turns out.
The women who sewed the suits for the space race - BBC Future
Scientist. Engineer. Astronaut. These are the careers most often associated with space. But there’s another activity far older than the history of human spaceflight, yet equally vital to today’s missions: the humble craft of sewing.
When Jeanne Wilson was seven, her mother taught her to sew. By age nine, Wilson was designing and making dolls’ clothes. Ten years later, in 1969, she was one of several seamstresses at ILC Dover who made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s spacesuits for the Apollo 11 Moon landing. ( Learn 50 fascinating facts about the Apollo missions to the Moon .)
Richland woman among astronaut candidates completing their NASA training in January | The
Lt. Kayla Barron, 32, will be among the 11 NASA candidates graduating Jan. 10, the space agency said in a news release Thursday. Barron and her 10 colleagues will be eligible for space travel after the graduation, which is the first to occur under NASA's new "Artemis" program.
That program's goal is to land a manned spacecraft on the moon by 2024, putting Barron in the running to be the first woman to visit Earth's satellite. Spokane's Anne McClain, who completed her astronaut training in 2015, has also been rumored as the first potential female moonwalker.
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