STP139 - FORTITUDE: The Story of the Emerging Space Industry - with Filmmaker Torsten Hoffmann

Apr 27

Following the launch of the SpaceX Starship prototype we wanted to talk about the bigger picture of the space industry. It just so happens that a brand new documentary is being made by filmmaker Torsten Hoffman and the team behind the High Frontier documentary. Torsten very kindly gave us some of his time to talk to us about the documentary and his opinions on the industry.

Torsten Hoffmann:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/torstenhq/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/torstenhq/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TorstenHQ
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/torstenhq/

FORTITUDE: https://www.fortitudemovie.com/
Kickstarter Campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bitcointheendofmoney/fortitude-forging-the-trillion-dollar-space-economy?ref=1ojcfm

The High Frontier Documentary:
https://thehighfrontiermovie.com/

Emily’s Article:
Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill’s Collection Underscores His Continuing Relevance, Intensity:
https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/dr-gerard-k-oneill-s-collection-underscores-his-continuing-relevance-intensity-8733da11784f

Things That Have Caught Our Eye This Week:
The Gerard K. O’Neill Collection:
https://sova.si.edu/record/NASM.2014.0005

Private Japanese spacecraft apparently fails on historic moon landing try:
https://www.space.com/ispace-hakuto-r-moon-landing-failure

Starship Launch:

Image Credits: Torsten Hoffmann

Space and Things:

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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/
Medium Blog: https://emilycarneyspace.medium.com/

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/EmilyLCarney
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilycarneyspace/

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.

Full info: https://www.davejgiles.com
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davejgilesmusic
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-giles-1286ab1a3/