Multiplanetary Society Timothy Reuter

In this episode we speak with Space Nuclear Power Corporation Chief Technology Officer Dr.
David Poston. We discuss Space Nukes vision for nuclear power in space, why we aren't making progress faster, and what he thinks future systems will look like. We also talk about the importance of becoming a multiplanetary society.

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In this episode we speak with Lockheed Martin's Deep Space Exploration Strategy and Business Development Lead Lisa May. We discuss what it takes to build a business focused on deep space, what LM can learn from the "new space" companies and what they can learn from LM, and finally what Lisa thinks we will be doing in deep space in the next 20 years.

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In this episode we interview DARPA Program Manager Dr Michael "Orbit" Nayak. We discuss DARPA's LunA-10 project, which is a look at what infrastructure is needed over the next 10 years to create a strong cis-lunar economy. We also talk about "making the impossible possible" as well as DARPA's historic role in the space sector.

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Today’s episode is the beginning of an oral history project about the previous generation of asteroid mining companies in the 2010s, specifically Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources. If anybody listening to this worked at DSI or Planetary Resources, I’d love to talk with you on or off the record for this project.


Today we are talking with Craig Foulds, the first full time employee at Deep Space Industries who was with them from 2013 -2017. He has since gone on to work at other great space companies including Bradford Space and Ultra Safe Nuclear.

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In this episode we speak with Dr Christopher Mason, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine and author of The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds. In this episode we dive head on into why Dr Mason believes we have an obligation to become multiplanetary, how it would be immoral not to genetically engineer humans, and a 10 stage plan for accomplishing this.

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In this episode we speak with Dr Philip R. Christensen, a geophysicist who is Regents Professor and the Ed and Helen Korrick Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. We discuss how to accelerate the pace of progress, whether there is life off earth in our solar system, and how he thinks about technological progress.

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