291 - FLY ME TO THE MOON: SUBORBITAL SPACE = THE JUMP POINT FOR SPACE EXPLORATION

Ioana Cozmuta, Co-Founder & CTO, Flawless Photonics
Usha Guduri, Mars 2020 Subsystem Lead, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Susan Lucas-Conwell, Executive Vice President, CSIRO US
Myra Nawabi, Senior Project Manager, Lockheed Martin Space Systems
June 11, 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm  •  Sierra

From a 2014 article in the Los Angeles Times: "In the not-so-distant future, the global elite will be able to zip between practically any major city - London to Sydney, New York to Beijing - in a mere two hours or less." They estimated that suborbital commuter flights would be tested by 2017 and on sale by 2020. Fast forward to 2018, where Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin, and SpaceX are all feverishly working towards private sector commercial space travel, up to and including to the moon ... which is changing the landscape of suborbital space. From expanding the International Space Station, to creating the most comprehensive satellite system to provide global internet, to tourists and travel ... come learn more about this multi-trillion dollar industry that overlaps 20 other industries.