STP113 - How To Use An Asteroid To Save Humanity - with Joel Sercel - CEO of TransAstra Corp.
This week we have a truly fascinating conversation with Joel Sercel, CEO of TransAstra Corp in which we find out how space technology is going to become the dominant global industry in the next 20 years and how it will save humanity.
TransAstra: https://transastra.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TransAstra_Corp
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/trans-astronautica-corporation/
Joel Sercel:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelsercel/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoelSercel
Joel’s Ethics Article:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/boldly-go-responsibly-full-text-submitted-prior-edits-joel-sercel/
Apollo Remastered:
https://www.apolloremastered.com/
This Week’s Launches:
Thur 20 Oct 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starling Group 4-36:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7005
Fri 21 Oct 2022: Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia: VKS RF: Soyuz 2.1v/Volga: Cosmos 2561 & 2562:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7028
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Sat 22 Oct 2022: Second Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India: ISRO: GSLV Mk III: OneWeb #14:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6988
Sat 22 Oct 2022: Site 1S, Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia: Roscosmos: Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M: Goniets-M n°33L to 35L & Skif-D:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/5287
This Week’s Other News:
SpaceX gearing up for 1st Falcon Heavy launch since 2019 (photo):
https://www.space.com/spacex-falcon-heavy-engines-photo-october-2022
Virgin Orbit's Cosmic Girl arrives in UK ahead of landmark orbital launch:
https://www.space.com/virgin-orbit-cosmic-girl-plane-arrives-uk
SpaceX's private Polaris Dawn mission now targeting March 2023:
https://www.space.com/spacex-polaris-dawn-march-2023
SpaceX technician in coma after rocket test accident: report:
https://www.space.com/spacex-technician-coma-rocket-test-accident
Help The Cabada's during this difficult times:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-cabadas-during-this-difficult-times
NASA astronauts 'moonwalk' in the Arizona desert for our lunar future:
https://www.space.com/artemis-astronauts-moonwalking-desert-simulation-2022
Moonwalking Test Mission Daily Field Log:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/moonwalking-test-mission-daily-field-log
Magnificent Pillars of Creation sparkle in new James Webb Space Telescope image:
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-pillars-creation-photo
Why the James Webb Space Telescope's amazing 'Pillars of Creation' photo has astronomers buzzing:
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-pillars-creation-excites-astronomer
NASA UFO study team includes former astronaut, scientists and more:
https://www.space.com/nasa-names-ufo-study-group-members
Image Credits: TransAstra Corporation
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Emily Carney
A veteran of the United States Navy, Carney became a freelance writer back in 2008 and started a blog called This Space Available, which is now hosted by the National Space Society. In 2022 she started working as Content Director for Celestis – the first company to have successfully conducted Memorial Spaceflight Missions.
In 2011, Carney founded a facebook group Space Hipsters. Originally intended to be a place to share news and insights amongst friends, this community has now grown to close to 30,000 members including astronauts, engineers, scientists, historians and space flight enthusiasts from around the globe.
NSS Blog: https://space.nss.org/category/this-space-available/
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Dave Giles
Giles is a singer/songwriter from London, England who has always had a passion for space flight. Since his early years he’s been looking skyward and though he ended up wielding a guitar for a living, space exploration is alway on his mind and one of his most popular songs is about astronaut Gene Cernan, ‘The Last Man On The Moon’.
In 2019 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, Giles visited all of the crewed space vehicles flown by NASA from Freedom 7 to the Space Shuttle Orbiters.
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