Ames physicists Chris Boshuizen and Will Marshall realized smartphone technology could produce dramatically cheaper, more capable spacecraft.
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Profile of Jason Dunn, Founder, Made in Space
With funding from NASA, Made in Space is preparing to send the first 3-D printer to the international space station in 2014.
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Profile | Ellen Stofan, NASA Chief Scientist
Since elementary school, Stofan has been extolling the virtues of space research and exploration. “I thought it was normal to argue with my classmates at age 7 or 8 about why it was important to go to the Moon,” Stofan said.
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Profile | Vince Deno, President, Millennium Space Systems Inc.
Millennium Space Systems keeps a low profile, but it’s attracting attention by winning contracts from DARPA and the NRO.
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Profile | Garrett Lee Skrobot, Mission Manager, Educational Launch of Nanosatellites, NASA Kennedy Space Center
Garrett Skrobot is considered a hero in the cubesat community.
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SN Profile | Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)
The success of SpaceX and its impact on launch prices are sparking a boom in entrepreneurial space activity, Jurvetson said.
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Profile | Alexandra Hall, Senior Director, Google Lunar X Prize
Overseeing the X Prize Foundation’s $30M race to the Moon offered Hall a new path to space exploration.
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Profile | Darryl Davis, President, Boeing Phantom Works
The Air Force has two X-37Bs, built by Boeing Phantom Works, and the current mission is the program’s third, all of them classified.
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Profile | Tim Pickens, Founder, Pickens Innovations
Few rocket industry executives get as much media exposure as Tim Pickens. The rocket-powered bicycles and jet packs he assembles in the workshop he calls a “man cave” have been featured on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” and National Geographic Channel’s “Mad Scientists.” Pickens also is scheduled to appear this fall on National Geographic’s “Rocket City Rednecks.”
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Profile | Jeffrey Manber, Managing Director, Nanoracks LLC
For two decades, Jeffrey Manber has been focused on a single goal: to create a climate in the United States where commercial space enterprises could flourish. In the 1980s, Manber established the first commercial space investment fund for Shearson Lehman Brothers in New York, before moving to Washington to set up the U.S. Commerce Department’s Office of Space Commerce.
