Better Futures

05/02/2022

The Star Fleet Enterprise: "Orbital Manufacturing + ​Babies in Space"

The next giant leap is needed for humans to venture into cislunar space. Together, we will commit to humanity's expanded space-residency.

Our goal: 15,000 people living on orbit!

Feb 4 -5, 2022

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02/02/2022

Michael Laine talks about space infrastructure workforce development. Michael Laine talks about space infrastructure workforce development.Coming soon, our event on how to build a for 15K people. Join us in just a few days on Feb 4&5 by registering at www. betterfutures.space https://youtu.be/Z4LG9U54FYo Need more time? Join us on March 4+5, 2022

Michael Laine talks about the space infrastructure workforce development to provide to the listeners of this session.Michael Laine emphasizes the session wit...

02/02/2022

Fredericus Darwin introduces what is and describes its practical use cases for day-to-day, real-world applications. SAR technology provides terrain structural information to geologists for mineral exploration, oil spill boundaries on the water to environmentalists, sea state and ice hazard maps to navigators, and reconnaissance and targeting information to military and intelligence operation

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Fredericus Darwin is currently a Senior Business Systems Analyst. He has a Master’s degree from Universitas Budi Luhur, Computer Science and Memorial Univer...

27/01/2022

Watch Dr. Roger Launius cover historical analogies in @ April 2021. In the United States, we are witnessing the convergence of several powerful economic forces, including the need to restore American capability to reach low-Earth orbit (LEO) for the servicing of the International Space Station (ISS) and the rise of a hospitality/tourism/entertainment industry interested in space.

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Roger D. Launius has written or edited more than thirty books on aerospace history. Between 1990 and 2002 he served as Chief Historian of the National Aeron...

25/01/2022

Watch Tim Chrisman cover Crossing the Chasm @ April 2021. Foundation for The Future is focused on the creation of a secure, sustainable, and efficient gateway to outer space with the U.S. Space Port Authority.

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Tim Chrisman is the Founder and Executive Director of Foundation for the Future, and a former U.S. Army Special Operations officer. Foundation for The Futur...

25/01/2022

Watch opening remarks + Making in Space - From to by Tim Chrisman and Laila Gislason @ April 2021. The Foundation for the Future is pioneering America’s success in through visionary space and projects.

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The Foundation for the Future is pioneering America’s success in space through visionary space transportation and infrastructure projects. The Foundation fo...

25/01/2022

Gary Calnan, Michael Laine, Justin Kugler and Robert Hoyt conduct a panel on Making in Space @ April 2021. Topic: Specifics around their work from a business perspective & are there too many companies for space today or not enough?

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This video is about the four panelists' discussion:**Gary Calnan**As CEO of CisLunar Industries, he believes that we are on the cusp of a great opening of th...

25/01/2022

Watch Dr. Andrew Aldrin cover -PrivatePartnerships @ April 2021. He speaks of his situation and opinion on the sino-U.S.-based policy research center, how the government handles interactions with China, how commercial enterprises can do so, its pros and cons, and why they take various types of risks in foreign policy.

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Andrew Aldrin is currently the Director of the Aldrin Space Institute at Florida Institute of Technology. ASI is a multidisciplinary institute created to ad...

25/01/2022

Watch Tim Chrisman give opening remarks on how the space can leverage the new @ April 2021. He says it's time to inspire hope, rekindle passion for space, and inform and realize that space is real by explaining to local residents whether he is an educator or a businessman.

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One of the founders at Foundation for the Future, Tim Chrisman, is a former CIA Intelligence Officer who supported the National Space Council. He is a retir...

22/01/2022

Dr. Laura Seward Forczyk + Jared Stout cover the aging . They also go back in time and talk about how the ISS was created, how the State Department-level treaty was first initiated, and how it could be translated into the future commercial space station.

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Dr. Laura Forczyk is the owner of a space consulting firm, Astralytical, specializing in space science industry and policy and offering space career coaching...

22/01/2022

Catrina Melograna introduces her journey as a and some information that can be obtained from infrastructure and career development parts of the space industry. She hopes her story will show people that they can enter a great space for everyone and provide some tips for the industry.

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Catrina Melograna is a Leiden University Air and Space Masters of Law student, a creative thinker, strategist, researcher, and problem solver with diverse ex...

22/01/2022

One of the Founders at Foundation for the Future, Lalia Gislason, covers the transition to . Their goal at the Foundation is to accelerate the development of U.S. space infrastructure through advocacy, education, connection, and actually every other means possible.

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One of the Founders at Foundation for the Future, Lalia Gislason, is a seasoned Marketing Executive with extensive knowledge of change in Management Design T...

20/01/2022

Watch the closing remarks by Tim Chrisman at April 2021.

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Foundation for the Future is dedicated to the creation of public-private cooperation for the development of space infrastructure, where they discuss the spec...

20/01/2022

Tim Chrisman talks about the trajectory of development they promote and doing the volunteer work. They are trying to establish a path for the community and are pushing for one of the things they can do to do so, the Human Resources Development Initiative.

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This event is hosted from Akron, Ohio, where there is space industry activity with active job postings. This video is going to visit with Executive Director...

20/01/2022

Peter Garretson says we need inter-ministerial coordinated national policies on space-based . It must provide large-scale base-load power for the private sector as well as the technical sector to be activated in the global market.

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Peter Garretson believes that the idea of an extremely narrow group, which is basically just the National Space Society and the Space Frontier Foundation, ha...

19/01/2022

Steven Lloyd Kwast says space will change the power of the world. He adds that the reason why space is strong is not because of its military use, but because it will change the four major engines - transportation, information, manufacturing, and energy - of economic growth that have been consistently observed throughout mankind.

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Steven Lloyd Kwast is a retired United States Air Force Lieutenant General. He last served as Commander of Air Education and Training Command at Joint Base ...

19/01/2022

Watch Peter Garretson talk about space-based solar power. He says it is not only space exploration or one of many business ideas, but an idea that is fundamentally linked to the opportunity for mankind to survive and thrive.

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Peter Garretson, a Senior Fellow in Defense Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council, is an Independent Strategy Consultant who focuses on space and de...

19/01/2022

Watch the May opening remarks held between Tim Chrisman and panelists of Conversations for the Future. Definitions and purpose of Conversations for the Future session were addressed as a non-partisan conversation for the future of space development near-Earth between now and 2030.

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This video section contains the May opening remarks held between Tim Chrisman and panelists of Conversations for the Future. Definitions and purpose of Conv...

18/01/2022

Tom Olsen, a Founder of the Center for Space Commerce and Finance covers being a for a type of plan . The motivation for holding this type of sponsorship was owing to the fact that the business side was beginning to be looked at around the edges and also to assist the utilization of hundreds of ideas with most of the market participants holding no business-related backgrounds.

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This video contains the discussion between the Conversations for the Future Conference panel and Tom Olsen who is a Founder of the Center for Space Commerce ...

18/01/2022

Rick Tumlinson, named world's top visionaries and 100 most influential people by Space News, helping to start what is called the new . He was also the Associate Producer of the film, “ '', a film emphasizing the absolute integral importance of O’Neil’s importance to the space industry.

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This video contains the discussion between the Conversations for the Future Conference panel and Rick Tumlinson, named word’s top visionaries and 100 most in...

18/01/2022

Watch Will Henry, a filmmaker and writer best known for the documentary “The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O’Neill”. Will Henry additionally mentions the overall content of the film, being about the life and influence of Gerard K. O’Neill told through the eyes of his peers, family, and the younger generation in the 1970s and 1980s who are the leaders in the modern space race.

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This video contains the discussion between the Conversations for the Future panel and Will Henry, a filmmaker, and writer best known for the documentary “The...

18/01/2022

Watch the discussion between Tim Chrisman and the panel regarding the feasibility and legitimacy of government and private sector capital infusion of various forms. It was noted that the Space Corporation Act was being seen at the Congress at the point of discussion during the session emphasized with the marketing term, “Crossing the Chasm”.

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This video contains the discussion between the Conversations for the Future Conference panel and Tim Chrisman with emphasis put in order to convince the audi...

18/01/2022

Watch the discussion between Dallas Meehan and Michael Laine. It was noted that Michael Laine was a pioneer of subsystems regarding the Space Elevator concept and precursor technologies in regard to space and Lunar elevator concepts and nanotech robots.

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This video contains the discussion between Dallas Meehan that started out with a brief explanation of Michael Laine’s career. It was noted that Michael Lain...

18/01/2022

Watch discussions regarding the PPP Plan initiative related to developing the Space-Based Solar Power concept by Randy Gigante. He emphasized the PPP plan, highlighting the details of the National Space Society’s Public-Private Partnership abstract published a year prior to this conversation.

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In this video, discussions regarding the PPP Plan initiative in relation to developing Space-Based Solar Power concept, or SBSP, by the National Space Societ...

17/01/2022

Watch the panel on space-based solar power and includes four of our prior speakers. Space-based solar power (SBSP) involves collecting the sun’s energy in space and then wirelessly transmitting it to Earth.

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This video is a panel about space-based solar power. We'll have four of our prior speakers.Space-based solar power (SBSP) involves collecting the sun’s energ...

17/01/2022

Mark Massa + Christopher Mulder describe as the ultimate “high ground,” as it contains key “terrain” that is very advantageous for surveillance, warfighting, and rapidly expanding commercial uses. This high ground is becoming more and more useful for nations—including the United States and its allies and partners, as well as competitors like China and Russia.

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Mark J. Massa is an Assistant Director in Forward Defense(FD) within the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. Massa contribut...

17/01/2022

John C. Mankins President of Artemis Innovation Management Solutions, LLC and of Mankins Space Technology, Inc presents an overview of the subject of space solar power.

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John C. Mankins is President of Artemis Innovation Management Solutions, LLC and of Mankins Space Technology, Inc. He is Vice President of the Board for the...

13/01/2022

Laila provides an overview of the day’s list of discussions prior to her session and discussion. Additionally, Laila stated that an important goal was to accelerate the US’s expansion through development, the first step of a gateway to outer space.

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13/01/2022

Michael Laine introduced a document published by the within the White House, “A New Era for Exploration and Development. In addition, Laine provided remarks on the grand architecture of LiftPort’s goals and visions, portrayed as AC/DC, a shortened term for Academic, Civil, Defense, and Commercial.

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A brief explanation by Michael Laine was provided to the panelists and listeners of this session. It was explained that it was him that facilitated the crea...

13/01/2022

Dr. M.V. “Coyote” Smith discussed the concept research of -Based , specifically feeding power into existing power utilizing reconverted energy in the form of transmission. Proper utilization of this technology would yield the equivalent amount of energy that would otherwise require 42 times more landmass of solar panels.

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This video contains the discussion, between the Conversations for the Future Conference panel and Dr. M.V. “Coyote” Smith, sponsored by the Foundations for t...

12/01/2022

make up only 15% of the -traveling community and studies found that there were many physiological advantages that women had over men, making space travel somewhat less risky and costly. https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2022/01/08/sixty_years_ago_nasa_scientists_found_that_women_would_be_better_astronauts_their_work_was_never_published_807835.html?utm_medium=10today.us.mon.rd.20220110.436.1&utm_source=email&utm_content=article&utm_campaign=10fortoday4.0styling

Over sixty years of crewed spaceflight, just 15% of space travelers have been women, and none of them have traveled beyond Earth’s orbit. But it didn't have to be this way. In the late 1950s, Dr

12/01/2022

Colonel Eric Felt presents on the Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research Project ( ). Ensuring that is supplied to the front operations base is one of the most dangerous parts of ground operations, and convoys and supply ships, the main targets of the enemy, are the usual means of power supply. Their main goal is to develop and mature skills that can benefit combatants.

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12/01/2022

Dallas Bienhoff’s CisLunar Space Development Company is a and company defining a reusable transportation for satellites, Lunar cargo, and human Lunar development missions. Their vision is to provide transportation from the Low Earth Orbit to the Moon's surface and all points in between.

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Dallas Bienhoff is the Founder and Space Architect of CisLunar Space Development Company. CisLunar Space Development Company is a space transportation and l...

12/01/2022

Paul Chang covered welding in space, showing a review of NASA's and related technologies for 2020 welding and additive placement. The manufacturing technology of the space environment has the potential to revolutionize the way the orbital platform is manufactured and assembled, and since astronauts can manufacture new parts and weld cracks, they can repair continuous damage to habitat structure in space missions and perform necessary repairs more economically.

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Paul Chang worked as an International Oil and Gas Consultant from Algiers to the US. He retired in 2016 from Saudi Aramco. He has an extensive background w...

11/01/2022

One of the few obstacles everyone must collectively overcome to get into is , and Venture Ingredients wants to create food for the future. Food occupies space and weight, and they place strict restrictions on the duration of the mission and crew size to solve related challenges. They are creating a fully enclosed bio-conversion system, a system that can grow 1/3 of the food needed by flight attendants of all sizes.

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One of the few obstacles everyone must collectively overcome to get into space is food, and Venture Ingredients wants to create food for the future. Food oc...

11/01/2022

James A. Vedda gives an overview of power and systems that will probably bear fruit in the future in 20 to 30 years. There are of course still many considerations regarding regulations and international along with technical issues.

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James A. Vedda has been a Senior Policy Analyst at the Aerospace Corporation Center for Space Policy and Strategy since 2004. He performs research and analy...

11/01/2022

Peter Garretson talks about placing up in Earth's orbit where solar power is always present and wirelessly transmitting that power to the ground. What's surprising about this is that if we can build it, unlike the solar cells we have on the roof now, we can operate day and night. This is the biggest idea in space and energy, and it is important because it actually allows us the possibility of direct conversion.

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Peter Garretson, a Senior Fellow in Defense Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council, is an Independent Strategy Consultant who focuses on space and de...

11/01/2022

Watch the opening of Conversations For the Future held in May 2021. Conversations For the Future is a nonpartisan conversation about space infrastructure development near-Earth between now and 2030.

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This video is about the opening of Conversations For the Future held in May 2021. Conversations For the Future is a nonpartisan conversation about space inf...

11/01/2022

Watch the result of the Business Plan Competition. Venture Ingredients is developing a closed system that can process solid human into fish meal, which in turn can a variety of food fish that humans generally prefer. This system, while initially designed for space experimentation, can also be expanded to add value in a very lucrative waste processing market right here on Earth, adding to human food supplies at the same time.

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These are the eight Finalists.Astroport Space Technologies, Inc. – USASTROPORT was founded with a vision to design, deploy, and operate interplanetary landin...