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Future Space 2020
Key Takeaways from the Civil Space Session
The programming that has been coming out of the space community over the past few months is really exciting. A lot of it has been free and open to the public. The conversations are pretty candid and seem to represent a shared mission and vision across the private and public sectors. It was fun, for example, to see Carissa Christensen, Bryce Space & Technology CEO, in the role of the interviewer rather than the interviewee during her conversation with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.
While Future Space 2020 had three sessions, National Security, Civil Space, and Congressional Space, the takeaways below are from the Civil Space session.
Civil Space: Interview with Jim Bridenstine and Carissa Christensen
1. Why commercial LEO?
The reason we want to commercialize LEO: because NASA wants to become one of many customers. If we can achieve this not just for launch, but also resupply and for space stations themselves, then we can go on to do things for which there is not yet a commercial marketplace, namely: go to the moon and then on to Mars.
